President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring
opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere
became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft.
The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it
rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of
politicians to pursue expansionist foreign policies. The crucial
episodes in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century foreign
relations--westward expansion in the 1840s, Civil War diplomacy,
the imperialism of 1898, entrance into World War I, and the
establishment of the League of Nations--were framed by the Doctrine
as its meaning evolved to suit the dreams and fears of an American
empire. In Jay Sexton's adroit telling, the Monroe Doctrine
provides a new lens through which to view a great paradox at the
center of American history: the nation's conflicting traditions of
anticolonialism and imperialism.
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