The Doctrines of US Security Policy: An Evaluation under by Heiko Meiertöns

By Heiko Meiertöns

The training of outlining rules for the behavior folks safety coverage in so-called doctrines is a attribute characteristic folks international coverage. From a global lawyer's perspective features of those doctrines are of specific curiosity. First, to what measure are the factors for using strength, as laid down in those doctrines, in keeping with the restrictions for using strength in overseas legislations? moment, which law-creating results do those doctrines have? moreover, the criminal nature of those doctrines continues to be doubtful. those issues are tested, starting with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 and considering the Stimson Doctrine of 1932, the doctrines of the Cold-War interval and the Bush Doctrine of 2002. The Bush Doctrine particularly has generated controversies pertaining to its compatibility with Article fifty one of the UN constitution, as a result of its precept of preventive self-defence.

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43 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1928, vol. 1, p. 1 44 S. Kennedy, ‘The Monroe Doctrine Clause of the League of Nations Covenant’, Graduate Studies Texas Tech University, No. 20, May 1979. 2. 3 The multilateralisation phase of the Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine entered the phase referred to as ‘multilateralisation’,51 at the beginning of the 1930s. The start of 45 J. Clark, Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine: December 17, 1928 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1930).

142–83. 4. 37 Secretary of State Olney to Mr Bayard, Ambassador to Great Britain, in Moore, A Digest of International Law, vol. VI, p. 535, § 966. 38 C. , 27/3 (2003), 301–26. Some writers assume that the Monroe Doctrine fulfilled the function as an instrument of US-American claim of hegemony in Latin America much earlier. See, for example, F. von Martens, V¨olkerrecht (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1883), vol. 1, pp. 303–5. However, an explicit reference to the Monroe Doctrine, as in the case of the Roosevelt Corollary, is missing.

46 Perkins, A History of the Monroe Doctrine, pp. 341–4. 47 C. Fenwick, The Organization of American States (Washington, DC: The Organization of American States, 1963), pp. 54–5. 48 ‘does not apply to purely inter-American relations. Nor does the declaration purport to lay down any principles that are to govern the inter-relationship of the states of this Western Hemisphere as among themselves. The doctrine states a case of United States vs. Europe, not United States vs. Latin America’, Clark, Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine, p.

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