Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region may steal more headlines, but it is Latin America that, historically, has played perhaps the most outsized role in American foreign affairs. Every high school student learns about the Monroe Doctrine, the creed promulgated by our fifth president by which the nascent American republic would view European geopolitical meddling in the Western Hemisphere as indicative of hostility toward American interests.
To be sure, the United States will always have a role to play in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific — countering global Sunni jihadism, Shiite supremacist Iranian hegemony, and imperialistic Chinese hegemony alike represent three of our most acute forward-looking geopolitical concerns.
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