A political bloodbath in the western hemisphere : how bolivarianism is sentencing the Monroe doctrine to death

Abstract EN

The present paper discusses the general political and diplomatic conduct in the Western Hemisphere.

Starting from the Monroe Doctrine which stipulated that the Western Hemisphere is US sphere of influence and control and laid the ground for several other policies including expansionism, interventionism, isolationism and territorialism.

However, this doctrine has come toe to toe with another rising ideology, Bolivarianism.

This ideology was resurrected from the ideals and thoughts of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Latin America, to confront the longstanding Monroe Doctrine using different policies mainly populism.

Over the course of the last two decades a battle of political domination and hegemony has been undergoing between the Bolivarianism and the US with the involvement of extra-hemispheric actors who were elicited by the weakening doctrine.

Eventually, the US had to change its foreign policy rhetoric vis-à-vis Latin America.