Evan Baumaster Jordan⅘ 2-22-2018 Bill Clinton’s Foreign Policy and the Monroe Doctrine Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd President of the United States of America in 1993. He defeated former Republican President, George H. W. Bush in 1992 and in 1996 he defeated Republican Senator Bob Dole. Foreign policy is an important part of being the President of the United States. President Bill Clinton’s views of foreign policy are different than James Monroe’s, whom wrote the Monroe Doctrine nearly 200 years ago. A United States Presidential doctrine is mostly a statement of goals and views on the United States foreign affairs described by the current President. There are around fourteen Presidential Doctrines and the Clinton is not found to be concrete. The majority of doctrines focus on military power or the use of military. “...for while at that time American politics knew but the one presidential doctrine (Monroe’s), during the next hundred years doctrines would multiply, and all would explicitly threaten or broadly imply the use of American military force” (Brands). The Monroe Doctrine states the United States would not tolerate intervention by European nations in the affairs of the Americas. It was created to avoid European colonization
