“Look there, Sancho Panza, where thirty or forty hulking giants appear, whom I intend to do battle with and slay.” – (Don Quixote) Part 1, Chapter VIII There appears to be no method to the madness pertaining the pronouncements of the Trump administration in ostensibly likening its policy ideation and decision-making concerning the Western Hemisphere […]
Monroe
Monroe to Donroe – Via Bush
The term “Donroe Doctrine” emerged as an analytical coinage to capture Donald Trump’s revival and mutation of the Monroe Doctrine. It fuses “Don” from Donald Trump with “roe” from Monroe to signal both continuity and rupture: the return of hemispheric exclusivity stripped of diplomatic restraint. It gained traction among commentators because it described not a […]