Jay Sexton
Professor of History and Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, and author on the Monroe Doctrine and 19th-century American foreign policy; provides expertise on the Monroe Doctrine segment.
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Jan 25, 2026 • 57min
US foreign policy in five doctrines
Kathleen Burke, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at UCL, on the Reagan Doctrine and Reagan's background. Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian at Rice, on Nixon and postwar strategies. Jay Sexton, historian of 19th-century US policy, on the Monroe Doctrine. They trace five major US foreign policy shifts from Monroe to post-9/11, contrasting interventions, containment, and changing presidential styles.
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Jan 20, 2026 • 14min
US Foreign Policy in Five Doctrines: 2. The Truman Doctrine
Barbara Perry, presidential studies scholar at the Miller Center, and Jay Sexton, historian and director at the Kinder Institute, unpack the Truman Doctrine. They explore postwar context, why Truman appealed to Congress, framing of communism, links to the Marshall Plan and NATO, and contrasts with later US approaches. Multiple short, lively discussions trace how policy, politics and rhetoric shaped early Cold War strategy.
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Jan 19, 2026 • 14min
US Foreign Policy in Five Doctrines: 1. The Monroe Doctrine
Jay Sexton, historian and Kinder Institute director who studies the Monroe Doctrine and 19th-century America, unpacks the doctrine’s origins in the Atlantic revolutions. He traces its evolution from a limited anti‑European pledge to a flexible political symbol, its transformation under Theodore Roosevelt, and how modern leaders revive Monroe-era rhetoric for contemporary posturing.
