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The Monroe Doctrine and United States National Security in the Early Twentieth Century

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  1. Alex Bryne

    1. Nottingham, UK

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  • Explores the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in domestic conceptions of US national security in the early twentieth century
  • Investigates how the Monroe Doctrine provided justification for the expanding scope of US foreign relations, aligned to core values of national security
  • Argues that many of these tenets of US national security were more international than American in nature and that these were shaped far beyond US borders

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: A Cluster of Loyalties

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Empire of the Monroe Doctrine

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 19-44

  4. Regional Hegemony and Pan-Americanism

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 45-92

  5. A Shibboleth and a War

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 93-129

  6. The Trichotomy of the Treaty Fight

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 131-169

  7. One Hundred Years and Still Going Strong?

    • Alex Bryne
    Pages 171-200

  8. Conclusion: Anything or Nothing

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    Pages 201-208

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 209-246
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About this book

This book demonstrates that during the early twentieth century, the Monroe Doctrine served the role of a national security framework that justified new directions in United States foreign relations when the nation emerged as one of the world’s leading imperial powers. As the United States’ overseas empire expanded in the wake of the Spanish-American War, the nation’s decision-makers engaged in a protracted debate over the meaning and application of the doctrine, aligning it to two antithetical core values simultaneously: regional hegemony in the Western Hemisphere on the one hand, and Pan-Americanism on the other. The doctrine’s fractured meaning reflected the divisions that existed among domestic perceptions of the nation’s new role on the world stage and directed the nation’s approach to key historical events such as the acquisition of the Philippines, the Mexican Revolution, the construction of the Panama Canal, the First World War, and the debate over the League of Nations.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham, UK

    Alex Bryne

About the author

Alex Bryne is a historian of United States foreign relations. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2017 and has published research articles in Diplomacy & Statecraft and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Monroe Doctrine and United States National Security in the Early Twentieth Century

  • Authors: Alex Bryne

  • Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43431-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43430-4Published: 20 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43433-5Published: 21 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43431-1Published: 19 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: US History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, Diplomacy

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