Two Centuries of the Conceptual Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine and Its Possible Application by the New Asian Hegemon

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Ihor Lossovskyi
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, First-Class Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Full Professor at the Department of International Affairs of the National Aviation University

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Abstract. This paper analyses the two-hundred-year conceptual evolution of the Monroe Doctrine from the original American foreign policy doctrine aimed at ensuring its military, political, and economic dominance in the Western Hemisphere to the possible application of similar principles in Asia by the growing Asian giant — the People’s Republic of China.
The author also examines the main provisions and practical consequences of the implementation of the modern foreign policy of the russian federation towards the countries of the post-Soviet space, primarily Ukraine, from the beginning of russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine. Based on the analysis of fundamental internal military-political, legal and regulatory documents of the russian federation and public statements of the russian dictator, he concludes the formation of a foreign policy doctrine by the kremlin regime, which is the ‘new doctrine of limited sovereignty’. Its fundamental element is the doctrine of ‘limited sovereignty’, which during the years of the inter-bloc confrontation of the Cold War was the main component of the so-called Brezhnev doctrine — the USSR’s foreign policy framework regarding the countries of ‘people’s democracy’. The article analyses the prerequisites for its emergence and outlines the main provisions and characteristics of the putin doctrine as a ‘new doctrine of limited sovereignty’.
An attempt is made to extrapolate the possible conceptual evolution of the concept of ‘limited sovereignty’ to the next historical period and another region of the planet — Asia — with the leading role in these processes of the new hegemon on the global chessboard — China.
Keywords: Monroe Doctrine, military-political aggression, Brezhnev Doctrine, putin’s Doctrine, real sovereignty, limited sovereignty.

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