When the Trump administration talks about controlling the Western Hemisphere, they’re calling back to a 19th-century policy.

President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to powerful countries in Europe. Fast forward, and ...

In 1823, President James Monroe called for European powers to stay out of the Americas – a stance that for generations led to ...

The Monroe Doctrine emerged in a few sentences tucked into President James Monroe’s annual message to Congress in 1823. The ...

Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and ...

Talks of Western hemisphere but is silent on Eastern hemisphere. The renewed assertion of American primacy in the Western ...

That was James Monroe's message to European colonial powers in 1823, to respect the independence of new nations of the ...

Trump "is pressing to create the conditions for a unilateral attack to a very valuable target," one Mexican analyst told ...

The wisest condemnation of Donald Trump’s decision to send us troops to the sovereign nation of Venezuela to remove President ...

Unable to maintain its position of leadership, the United States is severely hindering the progress of other nations. It’s a self-isolating form of hegemony that poses real geopolitical dangers. By ...

Trump has backtracked centuries to Theodore Roosevelt’s doctrine of 1904 and James Monroe’s of 1823. Roosevelt’s doctrine ...