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The declaration by President Monroe 1823 that
any further European colonial ambitions in
the western hemisphere would be threats to US
peace and security, made in response to
proposed European intervention against newly
independent former Spanish colonies in South
America. In return the USA would not
interfere in European affairs. The doctrine,
subsequently broadened, has been a recurrent
theme in US foreign policy, although it has
no basis in US or international law.