FROM THE MONROE TO “DONROE” DOCTRINE: A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE GEOPOLITICAL TERRITORIALIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE “WESTERN HEMISPHERE”

Abstract

The starting point of this article is how contemporary U.S. geopolitical intervention updates, through new dynamics of de-re-territorialization, a historical strategy of control and colonial-imperial reorganization of hemispheric space, clearly expressed “from Monroe to ‘Donroe Doctrine’”. The main objective is to analyse, albeit in a preliminary manner – particularly since the process is still unfolding – the geopolitical actions of the United States in the so-called Western Hemisphere, especially Latin America and the Caribbean, as an expression of a long-term strategy of colonial/imperial domination/control – in other words, of territorialization – whose matrix dates back to the Monroe Doctrine. The article is divided into three parts. The first discusses basic concepts such as the process of colonial-imperial des-re-territorialization on a global scale, which helps to understand the current geopolitical and geoeconomic interests of the United States in the context of its interventions. The second part addresses how the Monroe Doctrine (established in 1823) developed and materialized in U.S. foreign policy, reinforced by the Roosevelt Corollary (from 1904), thus allowing us to understand a broader geopolitics dynamic. Finally, the article connects this process to the interventionism of the so-called “Donroe Doctrine,” within the context of a new (inter)national security strategy and hemispheric domination under the framework of U.S. imperial coloniality of power.