Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents.  Donald Trump is uninteresting and ...

In the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, Trump could assert a right to intervene diplomatically, or perhaps even militarily, to prevent some extraregional red team from ensconcing itself in the Americas.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The background to the Roosevelt Corollary was fiscal instability in the Caribbean.

In December 1823, James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, articulated what has been named the Monroe doctrine, which would mature into an essential principle of American foreign policy ...