FROM MONROE TO TRUMP: THE U.S. DOCTRINE OF PREVENTIVE MILITARY STRIKE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

The Monroe doctrine is considered to be the key to understanding American foreign policy throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the current century. Indeed, the Monroe doctrine, likely the oldest in the world geopolitical doctrine, has preserved its meaning and its value. The development of the first foreign policy doctrine in American history is associated with increasing desire for world domination of the United States (first – on the American continent, and then beyond) in violation of basic principles of international law. Under the banner of this doctrine the United States have taken three attempts to establish world hegemony: first – after I World War, second – after the II World War, and third – currently, since the end of the «Cold war» to the new-old doctrine  
of Donald Trump, which strongly imposes to the world the inevitability of the first military strike against Iran, North Korea.