History

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What is / was the Monroe Doctrine?

[dot.hawkes]

check the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_doctrine

[Grunty]

As Dot's link shows, The Monroe Doctrine was formulated by the US President Monroe. It says, briefly, that European countries should not colonise or interfere in the affairs of countries on the American continent.

It is not recorded whether any reciprocal doctrine has been formulated by the inhabitants of China, France, Marshall Islands, India, Greece, Philippines, Korea, Albania, Eastern Europe, Germany, Iran, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Haiti, Western Europe, British Guiana/Guyana, Iraq, Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Ecuador, The Congo/Zaire, France/Algeria, Brazil, Peru, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Indonesia, Ghana, Uruguay, Chile, Greece, South Africa, Bolivia, Australia, Iraq, Portugal, East Timor, Angola, Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Philippines, Seychelles, South Yemen, South Korea, Chad, Grenada, Suriname, Libya, Fiji, Panama, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Haiti, Bulgaria, Albania, Somalia, Iraq, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Yugoslavia,