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Trump's foreign policy doctrine is chasing a lost hemisphere

President Donald Trump centers his national-security goals on the geopolitics of the continent south of the United States, reviving the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary.
Schmidt, writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, argues the administration is prioritizing a reassertion of U.S. influence across the Western Hemisphere.
By stressing geography and geopolitics, policy-makers emphasize hemisphere geography to set priorities toward countries to the south and lean on historical precedents for policy justification.
The approach raises prospects of tension with Latin American sovereignty and could shift regional security priorities, reshaping U.S.-Latin American relations.
Using older doctrines in current policy appears anachronistic, as the commentary describes reliance on 19th- and early-20th-century doctrines amid modern geopolitical realities and reduced multilateral engagement.

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