Jay Sexton
Professor of History and Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, and author on the Monroe Doctrine and 19th-century American foreign policy; provides expertise on the Monroe Doctrine segment.
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Jan 25, 2026 • 57min
US foreign policy in five doctrines
Kathleen Burke, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at UCL, on the Reagan Doctrine and Reagan's background. Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian at Rice, on Nixon and postwar strategies. Jay Sexton, historian of 19th-century US policy, on the Monroe Doctrine. They trace five major US foreign policy shifts from Monroe to post-9/11, contrasting interventions, containment, and changing presidential styles.
