What is Neoconservatism?

Abstract

1. The Neoconservatives Were Latecomers to a Bigger, and Very Crowded, Neo Conservative Scene in the Post-World War II Era. 2. The Neoconservatives Were in Many Respects a Conceputally Derivative and Relatively Loose Grouping (But With Some Common Traits). 3. Neoconservatism Has Been a Comparatively Minor Force in American Domestic Policymaking. 4. Neoconservative Foreign Policy Entails Significant Continuities With What Came Before, Particularly in the Wilsonian Tradition and Cold War Rollback. 5. Neoconservatism Became the Conventional Wisdom of Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy.