Richard Drake
Professor of History at the University of Montana and scholar of American foreign policy, offering historical analysis of the Monroe Doctrine and its evolution.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 55min
Why the Monroe Doctrine has world leaders on edge
Maxwell (Max) Cameron, UBC political scientist specializing in Latin America, and Richard Drake, historian of US foreign policy, unpack the Monroe Doctrine's origins and its turn toward intervention. They trace 19th-century wars to Roosevelt's corollary, examine a Trump-era realist revival tied to resources and China, and weigh impacts on Venezuela, Canada and Greenland.
