Neoconservatism and Neoconservative Ideas

1. Neo-conservatism
ATATÜRK ALA-TOO UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT: International Relations
LECTURER: Phd.Ibrahim Koncak
STUDENT: Ulugbek Izhbuldin
GROUP: IR-3B

2.  What is the Neo-Conservatism?
 Neoconservative Ideas
 The Four tenets of Neoconservative foreign policy thought.

3. Neo-conservatism
 Neoconservatism (commonly shortened to neocon) is a political
movement born in the United States during the 1960s among
Democrats who became disenchanted with the party's domestic and
especially foreign policy.
 Neoconservatives peaked in influence during the administrations
of George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, when they played a major
role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

4.  The 9/11 attacks was replaced by both dissent and resentment and Bush
administration launched a preventive war against Iraq.
 The influence of neoconservatives and their foreign policy ideas on Bush
administration.

5.  The Neoconservative ideas were important in the US decision to
launch a preventive war against Iraq.

6.  Neoconservative foreign policy thought emphasizes the moral
necessity of distinguishing between :
 The forces of good and evil in international arena
 The importance of maintaining US military predominance
 Willingness to use force
 Deep distrust of international law and institutions.

7. The Four tenets of Neoconservative foreign policy
thought.
 Moral Clarity
 Military pre-eminence
 Leverage of military power
 Deep distrust of international law

8. Moral Clarity
 For neoconservatives , morality and interest rate are conjoined in US
diplomacy : it`s right and in the interest of the USA to act against regimes
whose values and actions it considers morally abhorrent.

9. Military pre-eminence
 Means that the US should enjoy both strategic and ideological
predominance in the world.
 The Neoconservatives implicit theory on international
relations is based on preponderance of power rather than
balance of power.

10. The Leverage of Military power
 USA should leverage its military power , be willing to use
military force to pursue it`s foreign policy goals.

11. Distrust of international law
 The one part of neoconservatives has deep scepticism about
the ability of international law and institutions to bring about
peace and justice in the world.
 Institutions like Criminal court and the United Nations are
seen by neoconservatives as mechanism used by weaker
powers to tie down the USA.

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