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      The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective
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      The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective

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      The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective book

      ByDenneth M. Modeste
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 19 February 2020
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429352669
      Pages 264
      eBook ISBN 9780429352669
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Modeste, D.M. (2020). The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429352669

      ABSTRACT

      This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823. It explores the historical role of the Monroe Doctrine as the instrument to foreclose future European colonial adventures in the American hemisphere and to exclude from it any political system(s) deemed to be incompatible with the American political tradition. Modeste examines the elastic interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine to justify American territorial expansion and imperial ambitions, premised on a strategic question – the power controlling the Latin American/Caribbean trade routes and Sea Lines of Communication. Fundamental to the narrative is the linkage of the tenets of the Monroe Doctrine to contemporary local/regional crises where governments have applied extraordinary, extra-constitutional measures to exercise control or achieve political ends, mechanisms of peaceful conflict resolution failures, and subversive elements that use unorthodox methods to threaten the integrity of the state. Modeste also traces the transformation of the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral policy declaration to a multilateral compact for the collective defence of the hemisphere.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |15 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|23 pages

      Europe and the Americas

      The Old World and the New Mission

      chapter 2|9 pages

      The Original Monroe Doctrine

      chapter 3|36 pages

      Expansion of the Monroe Doctrine

      chapter 4|24 pages

      The Monroe Doctrine and the Containment of Communism

      chapter 5|26 pages

      The Grenada Revolution in the Cold War Context

      chapter 6|39 pages

      Haiti: Taming the Revolutionary Spirit

      chapter 7|30 pages

      Longevity of the Monroe Doctrine

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