Revolutionizing Nonintervention: The Mexican Revolution, the Resistance to US Interventionism and the Radical Restatement of the Principle of Nonintervention in Latin American International Thought

JUAN PABLO SCARFI

London

Conferencia; Millennium Conference: Journal of International Studies: Revolution & Resistance in World Politics; 2018

London School of Economics and Political Science

My paper examines the transformations introduced by the Mexican Revolution and their implications for debates over US armed and unilateral interventions in the face of US intervention in Veracruz (1914). It explores the rise of a diplomatic and legal critique of the Monroe Doctrine in the context of the Mexican Revolution, the emergence of Carranza Doctrine and above all revisionist approaches to IR and international law, focusing on the international thought of Isidro Fabela, Minister FA under Venustiano Carranza (1913-1915) and Diplomatic representative in Spain, UK, France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay (1915-1919) and Carlos Pereyra, a Mexican jurist and diplomatic historian, who wrote influential studies about the Monroe Doctrine.