Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, joins the show to discuss a failed-but-spectacular 19th Century attempt by European powers to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.▪️Times     •      01:42 Introduction    •      03:31 Transatlantic relations     •      05:20 Europe distracted    •      08:39 Secession and unrest       •      12:46 Maximillian I       •      17:55 Continental powers     •      20:01 Britain, France and Spain        •      26:13 What the Americans did right     •      28:23 Napoleon III    •      30:09 Mexico and the Confederacy        •      35:20 Slavery adjacent      •      38:46 What went wrong        •      42:07 Benito Juarez   •       44:33 Maximillian’s execution   •       46:20 European alarmFollow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcastFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack