From Isolation to Leadership: A Review of American Foreign Policy (Classic Reprint)

From Isolation to Leadership
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ORIGIN OF THE POLICY OF ISOLATION
The Monroe Doctrine and the policy of political isolation are two phases of American diplomacy so closely related that very few writers appear to draw any distinction hetween them. The Monroe Doctrine was in its origin nothing more than the assertion, with special application to the American continents, of the right of independent states to pursue their own careers without fear or threat of intervention, domination, or subjugation by other states. President Monroe announced to the world that this principle would be upheld by the United States in this hemisphere. The policy of isolation was the outgrowth of Washington's warning against permanent alliances and Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances. Both Washington and Jefferson had in mind apparently the form of European alliance common in their day,

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; csaptek facb; I Origin of the Policy of Isolation 3; II Formulation of the Monroe Doctrine 19; III The Monroe Doctrine and the; European Balance of Power 43; IV International Cooperation With-; out the Sanction of Force 57; V The Open-Door Policy 83; VI Anglo-American Relations 99; VII Imperialistic Tendencies of the; Monroe Doctrine 13$; /III The New Pan-American ism 151; IX The Failure of Neutrality and; Isolation 169; X The War Aims of the United States 191; XI The Treaty of Versailles 225 XII The Washington Conference 259 Index 291

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