For over 200 years, American policy in the Western hemisphere has been informed by the policy laid out in James Monroe's 1823 address to Congress that the United States would not tolerate the attempted control by European nations of countries or territories within the United States' sphere of influence. Since that day, the policy has been invoked to cover French intervention in Mexico, European intervention in Latin America, and the Soviet Union's building of missile sites in Cuba. With the recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela, as well as the administration's claims surrounding the threat posed by Russia and China to Greenland, the Monroe Doctrine is of renewed interest to the public.
How relevant is the Monroe Doctrine is to what's happening in our hemisphere today? How did the public response in Monroe's time inform the development of this idea? And how this policy has been interpreted and born out throughout our history? Join the National Association of Scholars (NAS) as we explore these ideas and more.
This event features Dr. John Grant, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at Hillsdale College. He is the author of “Theodore Roosevelt, Imperial Uplift, and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy,” Pietas, Fall 2023, 51-80; Dr. Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri, where he also Directs the Kinder Institute, he is also the author of several books and numerous journal articles, including The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America; and “The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History” (Diplomatic History, 2023); and Dr. J. Michael Waller, a journalist and investigative writer on national security affairs, he is also the author of several books on security, terrorism and political warfare, and he serves as an editorial Board Member at NATO Defence Strategic Communications Journal. Dr. Waller is a regular lecturer for the National Defense University and the National Intelligence University, and was the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. for 13 years.
This event is moderated by Dr. Lilla Nora Kiss, the Senior Fellow for International Affairs and Academic Integrity at the NAS.
Photo by Gilbert Stuart - Met Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=638015
