Monroe Doctrine
AI summary of the linked articleThe Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position opposing foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere, which James Monroe first articulated on December 2, 1823, in his seventh annual State of the Union Address. The doctrine held that European efforts to control or influence sovereign states in the Americas would be viewed as a threat to U.S. security, while the U.S. would not interfere with existing European colonies. Because the U.S. lacked a credible navy and army at the time, it was largely ignored internationally, and Britain enforced it tactically through the Royal Navy. The doctrine was reinterpreted after 1898 as promoting multilateralism and non-intervention, and in 1933 the United States affirmed this view in co-founding the Organization of American States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
4 comments macbudkowski.ethSubmitter Found it interesting regarding the TikTok ban and Musk being involved in the European politics. Seems like banning a social app run by the Chinese Communist Party goes in line with this doctrine, and the EU reacting harshly to Elon talking about the UK and German politics looks like the EU's version of the Monroe Doctrine.  Yeah but the key here is "Western Hemisphere." Idk, I find it kinda far fetched to quote this Dictrine and say "this is why we justify making certain decisions today" because does Tiktok payout "in the Western Hemisphere on Earth" or is TikTok a thing of the Internet and hence the Doctrine isn't really applicable. I'd actually say that the Doctrine doesn't apply here as it was written in a time when informational influence wasn't a thing yet. macbudkowski.ethSubmitter Yeah Western Hemisphere is a very hmmm ambitious perspective. I didn't intend to say that SCOTUS followed this doctrine when deciding on the TikTok ban. It's more of a cultural background they could build this decision on - since the US had this policy in the past, it seems natural they'd protect their country from the political influence of other countries. And that could be one of the reasons why they have a bi-partisan support for this ban. I do think it is applicable in the Internet era. At the end of the day, they can ban the app in the United States and this is exactly what Google and Apple did. And informational influence has been around for hundreds of years, though ofc the scope was more narrow because typically foreign nations weren't allowed to own the big media such as newspapers, radios and later TV stations. macbudkowski.ethSubmitter Btw that being said, I get your point. Banning TikTok is about the US, not Western Hemisphere and this policy is focused on the whole hemisphere. |