Neoconservatism
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RESUM Aquest escrit és una reflexió sobre les propostes teòriques de Francis Fukuyama (La fi de la història) i Samuel P. Huntington (Xoc de civilitzacions), les quals han tingut una gran influència en el pensament filosòfic polític... more
Barrionuevo, S. J. (2019). El platonismo de Leo Strauss y su recepción neoconservadora. Res Publica. Revista De Historia De Las Ideas Políticas, 22(2), 425-443 RESUMEN: La recepción del pensamiento platónico se torna un elemento clave en... more
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? The book explores this question and looks at how in the 1990s the U.S. government, the World... more
William F. Buckley afforded conservatives of all stripes a provocative rhetorical style, a gladiatorial style, as I term it. The gladiatorial style is a flashy, combative style whose ultimate aim is the creation of inflammatory drama. I... more
Neo-conservatism is a political ideology which is formed by the combination of traditional conservatism and political individualism. It also includes pursuit of free market economy. In the beginning neo-conservatives emerged as liberal... more
The last decade saw the rapid emergence of the Dutch New Right, leading to a significant break in Dutch political culture. The nature of this break remains contested. Some argue it should be seen as a conservative restoration, an attempt... more
The text analyzes some aspects of the recent "war on gender" in Poland. I propose to interpret this trend as a transnational rather than local phenomenon. Moreover, while the notion of "gender" has gained momentum in the Polish context,... more
My master's thesis from 2007, currently being expanded into my dissertation at Ohio University, on the social democratic roots of neoconservative foreign policy.
Many have noted how the Bush administration’s linking of Iraq to the war on terror lent a certain degree of legitimacy to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Few scholars who have noted this linkage, however, have theorised about the specific... more
This piece, published in the French and English academic blog Tocqueville21, evaluates James Burnham's recent "mini Renaissance" and critically analyzes the apocalyptic rhetoric that underlies his theory of "the managerial revolution." I... more
La participación de evangélicos en política es un fenómeno que se ha hecho común en América Latina en el período posterior a las dicta-duras. El presente artículo analiza el fenómeno, más reciente, del apoyo de evangélicos/as a... more
The attack on natural right in the name of history takes in most cases the following form: natural right claims to be a right that is discernible by human reason and is universally acknowledged; but history (including anthropology)... more
Resumo: A sociedade brasileira tem vivenciado um intenso embate hegemônico sobre as concepções de gênero e sexualidade articuladas nas políticas públicas de currículo e formação docente. Grupos políticos e religiosos conservadores têm... more
Arguing against the idea that American neoconservatives were influenced by Trotskyism in their foreign policy.
Emperyalizm, Hegemonya, İmparatorluk, uluslararası politik ekonomi literatürünün en önemli başlıklarını, Irak'ın ABD tarafından işgalini merkeze alarak tartışıyor. Kitapta bu üç kavram, önce sırtlarında taşıdıkları zamandışılık... more
The Somali-born Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been one of the world’s most influential voices in present debates on the role of Islam in Western societies. Due to the fact that her views are often seen as the reflection of her personal... more
This report reviews and categorizes the enormous corpus of knowledge produced by American academic and policy institutions about U.S. relations with the Middle East and other Islamic actors in the international arena. The report... more
‘Country risk’ is essentially about assessing the economic prospects of a nation holistically, within the broader legal and geopolitical soil without which institutional investors cannot grow their assets. The government of Qatar is now... more
No discurso de posse no parlatório, o presidente Jair Bolsonaro afirmou que o “[...] povo começou a se libertar do socialismo, da inversão de valores, do gigantismo estatal e do politicamente correto”. Mas como assim libertar o Brasil do... more
Este trabajo sistematiza y analiza algunas dimensiones claves del impacto de los conservadurismos religiosos sobre los derechos y comunidades LGBTI. Describimos y analizamos las principales estrategias, fuentes de financiamiento,... more
El presente texto busca comprender los modos en que hoy en día se están articulando los proyectos neoliberales con los neoconservadores en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se indagan centralmente los discursos de dos tipos de actores... more
The concept of Orientalism has been widely dealt with in the humanities and social sciences. It helps explain a peculiar construction of the Arab-Muslim world. Orientalism has operated in various historical paradigms but has always... more
SUMARIO 1. Introducción 2. Conservadurismo, Neoconservadurismo y Neocons 3. Sobre el concepto de neoconservadurismo 4. Los pilares del neoconservadurismo 5. El neoconservadurismo en el final de la Guerra Fría: Francis Fukuyama y Samuel P.... more
Meaningfully defining “nationalism” is particularly challenging in a twenty-first-century context. Combined with overlap with related concepts, such as “statism” and “patriotism,” there exists an ever-present risk of losing the ability to... more
Στο παρόν άρθρο μελετούμε τις αποκλίσεις της κονδυλικής ανάλυσης της ιστορίας των ιδεών των νεότερων χρόνων από την αντίστοιχη σμιτιανής προέλευσης ανάλυση του Koselleck, όπως αυτή παρουσιάζεται στο έργο του Critique and Crisis.... more
In what follows, my guiding question is: what is it about Strauss’ theoretical position that can have led to it being raised, repeatedly, in connection with the most controversial and secretive American ‘regime’ since Nixon’s? In Part 1,... more
Please consult the book's 2nd edition, above Three prints of the 1st edition were sold between April 15, 2014 - July 31, 2015. The book went out of print and its adventures in publish-land are discussed here:... more
Este trabajo busca destacar algunas dimensiones que hacen a la transnacionalización del activismo neoconservador en América Latina. Específicamente, aborda las principales formas de articulación y alianzas que están desplegando a nivel... more
In departing from the traditional principles of a " just war " theory, which demands that military action be taken only in self-defense, the U.S. government's policy in its war against Iraq was preemptive, the logic being that the... more
George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been... more