A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to Eur

"In a cogent study, [Smith] explains how the U.S. molded the U.N. Charter to bar the U.N. from political involvement in the West." - Publishers Weekly When Pres

In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect th

This book demonstrates that during the early twentieth century, the Monroe Doctrine served the role of a national security framework that justified new directio