Monroe Doctrine

U.S. President James Monroe

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President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress, a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States.

The doctrine's authors, especially John Quincy Adams, saw it as a proclamation by the United States of moral opposition to colonialism, but it has subsequently been re-interpreted in a wide variety of ways, including by President Theodore Roosevelt as a license for the U.S. to practice its own form of colonialism, the Roosevelt Corollary.

The Cold War

During the Cold War, the Monroe doctrine was applied to Latin America by the framers of U.S. foreign policy. When the Cuban Revolution established a socialist regime with ties to the Soviet Union, after trying to establish fruitful relations with the US, it was argued that the spirit of the Monroe doctrine should be again invoked, this time to prevent the further spreading of Soviet-backed Communism in Latin America. During the Cold War, the United States thus often provided intelligence and military aid to Latin and South American governments that claimed or appeared to be threatened by Communist subversion. This, in turn, led to some domestic controversy within the United States, especially among some members of the left who argued that the Communist threat and Soviet influence in Latin America was greatly exaggerated. (See Operation PBSUCCESS.)

The debate over this new spirit of the Monroe Doctrine came to a head in the 1980s, as part of the Iran-Contra Affair. Among other things, it was revealed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had been covertly training "Contra" guerrilla soldiers in Nicaragua in an attempt to overthrow the Sandinista revolutionary government and its President, Daniel Ortega. During the period of the civil war, the Contras killed an estimated 14,000 people and 150,000 were displaced. CIA director Robert Gates vigorously defended the Contra operation, arguing that avoiding U.S. intervention in Nicaragua would be "totally to abandon the Monroe doctrine".

Critics of the Reagan administration's support for Britain in the Falklands War charge that the U.S. ignored the Monroe Doctrine in that instance (even though an American nation, Argentina, attacked the possession of an existing European power, Britain, that predated the Doctrine).

British North America - an exceptional case

Of the regions of the Americas which were directly influenced by a European colonial power, it is notable that the colonies and territories of British North America were not included in the implementation of the Monroe Doctrine. The War of 1812 had already been fought between the United States and the United Kingdom for possession of Lower and Upper Canada, and any further attempts at intervening in the northern colonies would almost certainly led to another US-UK war.

It is also notable that the presence of the colonies - and eventually the Dominion of Canada - within the Empire was viewed from within the colonies themselves as being an important counter-weight to possible American hegemony - indeed, the Hudson's Bay Company was obliged to sell its holdings in Rupert's Land to the young Dominion instead of the United States, and subsequent colonisation efforts in Ottawa were stirred on in part to counter the presence of American traders in the region.

Further reading

• Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. 1949.
• Dozer, Donald. The Monroe Doctrine: Its Modern Significance. New York: Knopf, 1965.
• May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
• Merk, Frederick. The Monroe Doctrine and American Expansionism, 1843-1849. New York: Knopf, 1966.
• Murphy, Gretchen. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire. Duke University Press, 2005. Examines the cultural context of the doctrine.
• Perkins, Dexter. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826. 3 vols. 1927.
• Poetker, Joel S. The Monroe Doctrine. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc, 1967.
• Smith, Gaddis. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. Argues that the Monroe Doctrine became irrelevant after the end of the Cold War.

Reference

• U.S. State Department: "Monroe Doctrine" — most material (as of this writing on 2-Dec-2002) was copied from this public domain source.

External links

• Monroe Doctrine and related resources at the Library of Congress
• Selected text from Monroe's December 2, 1823 speech