Context: Recent foreign policy positions of the present U.S. President Donald Trump are often described as the “Donroe Doctrine”, as they echo the core spirit of the 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine, particularly in emphasizing regional dominance, strategic autonomy, and reduced external intervention.
About the Monroe Doctrine
- Proclaimed: 1823
- By: U.S. President James Monroe
- Context: Latin American countries were gaining independence from European colonial powers.
- Nature: A unilateral declaration outlining the United States’ vision of the new political order in the Western Hemisphere.
Objectives
- To prevent European imperial expansion in the Americas.
- To establish the United States as the primary security guarantor of the Western Hemisphere.
- To safeguard U.S. strategic, economic, and political interests in its neighborhood.
Core Principles
- Non-Colonization
oEuropean powers should not establish new colonies in North or South America.
oAny attempt at colonization would be viewed as a hostile act against the U.S.
- Non-Intervention
oEuropean nations must not interfere in the internal affairs of independent American states.
oThis applied particularly to former Spanish colonies in Latin America.
- U.S. Non-Interference in Europe
oThe United States would not involve itself in:
§European wars
§European internal politics
§Existing European colonies
Significance
- Laid the foundation of U.S. hemispheric hegemony.
- Marked the transition of the U.S. from isolationism to selective regional assertiveness.
- Later used to justify U.S. interventions in Latin America (e.g., Roosevelt Corollary).
IAS-2026 - OPTIONAL / GEOGRAPHY / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / SOCIOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / ORIENTATION ON 03 & 04-10-2025 
