"The Monroe Doctrine, a significant piece of United States foreign policy, was first articulated by President James Monroe in 1823, and it essentially warns the powers of Europe from meddling in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, claimed by the US as its own sphere of influence. Initially, the doctrine was meant to oppose European colonialism while simultaneously asserting the US as a rising regional power."
"By the turn of the 20th century, it had taken on a new meaning and was often used as justification for the 'policing' of Latin America by the US. Since its inception, the Monroe Doctrine has routinely been invoked to justify various US foreign policy positions and remains relevant today. Origins Towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), a wave of revolutions swept across Latin America."
"Spain had been ravaged by the armies of Napoleon I (reign 1804-1814; 1815) and could barely afford to keep control over its colonial empire in the Americas, a weakness that liberty-seeking revolutionaries managed to exploit. Under the leadership of men like Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) and José de San Martín (1778-1850), the revolutionaries cast off the shackles of Spanish colonial rule and established independent republics based on the ideals of the Enlightenment."
The Monroe Doctrine warned European powers against meddling in the Western Hemisphere and claimed the Americas as the United States' sphere of influence. The doctrine aimed to oppose European colonialism while asserting the United States as a rising regional power. In the post-Napoleonic era, Latin American revolutions led by Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín produced fragile new republics vulnerable to European recolonization. Austria, Prussia, and Russia, as well as plans among other great powers, threatened to restore colonial control. Britain and the United States opposed Holy Alliance intervention. By the early twentieth century, the doctrine was used to justify U.S. policing of Latin America.
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