As the title says! What would be the effects of there never being a Monroe Doctrine or any equivalent doctrine?
Wasn't this mostly John Quincy Adams work?
Yes, it was. Which is one reason he's considered one of the greatest secretaries of state in American history.
As the title says! What would be the effects of there never being a Monroe Doctrine or any equivalent doctrine?
So do we look at this in terms of no Monroe doctrine at all. Or do we look at it as, Monroe Doctrine but under another name?
See this bit?Just like a rose would smell as sweet by any other name, the Monroe Doctrine would have the same effect by any other name if it was the same thing.
What would be the effects of there never being a Monroe Doctrine or any equivalent doctrine?
See this bit?
As the title says! What would be the effects of there never being a Monroe Doctrine or any equivalent doctrine?
As far as I can see almost naff all difference. The USA never had the ability to enforce the doctrine until the first decade of C20. The British completely ignored it prior to that so as far as I can see did the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russians and Dutch. On those occasions when they had an interest in that hemisphere so too did the Belgians, Italians, Austria-Hungarians, Italians and even the Swedes. Can we point to any time where the USA successfully executed policy based on the doctrine prior to C20? The few examples I am aware of are where USA policy was coincident with British foreign policy.