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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 76 days ago http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3236
 According to the great if controversial German jurist, Carl Schmitt, who also wrote eloquently on the laws of war and on world geopolitics, the relationship between the United States of America and the rest of the world is defined by its relationship to Europe. In 1832, runs his argument, Washington proclaimed the so-called Monroe doctrine. Named after President James Munroe who authored it, the doctrine holds that European powers should stay out of the Western hemisphere. It has been invoked numerous times during American history, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, including most notably in the Spanish-American war which ended in victory for the US over Cuba in 1898. Schmitt argues that the proclamation of the Monroe doctrine was a key conceptual turning point in America’s relationship with the outside world, and therefore too in her own understanding of her self. Whereas the original Pilgrim Fathers had wanted to break off all ties with Europe in order to create a perfect and “shining city on a hill”, and whereas the Monroe doctrine was in some respects a continuation of this policy, its announcement that European influence was to be held at bay throughout the Western hemisphere was the first proclamation that American military power should be projected outside the country’s national borders. Schmitt claims, and many have agreed, that it encapsulated the first moment when America came to consider herself to be the em ... |
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