Original scientific paper

FAREWELL TO NEOCONSERVATISM

Erma Ivoš ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

The author poses the question about the fate of neoconservatism, in the 1980s the official political orientation in the USA. Twenty years later, one can see how anti-communism and anti-modernism, neoconservatism's fundamental ideological premises, have changed the political practice and awareness, both (and equally) in American foreign and national policy. Though conceptually incoherent, neoconservatism has proved to possess exceptional clout. This has led the author to conclude that neoconservatism, despite the claims by neoconservatives themselves that it is dead, still has much leeway, since voters' awareness has been changed: they have got used to the new political context, they vote for well-balanced “mixtures” of rightist and leftist ideologies.

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Hrčak ID:

33454

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/33454

Publication date:

3.6.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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