Neoconservatives Portal

Welcome to the Neoconservatives Portal on Powerbase—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR.

According to Irving Kristol, one of the leading US neoconservatives, it is a movement of liberals "mugged by reality." Stephen J. Sniegoski reports that "the term was coined by socialist Michael Harrington as a derisive term for leftists and liberals who were migrating rightward. Many of the first generation neoconservatives were originally liberal Democrats or even socialists and Marxists, often Trotskyites. Most originated in New York, and most were Jews. They drifted to the right in the 1960s and 1970s as the Democratic Party moved to the anti-war McGovernite left."^[1]

The Neoconservatives portal focuses on:

• US and international neoconservatives active in Europe. This included 'Scoop Jackson Democrats' as well as those associated with the Republican party.

• Europeans who self-identify as neoconservatives or who have been heavily influenced by the US neoconservative tradition.

• Europeans participating in projects and organisations with significant neoconservative participation, or which reflect a neoconservative ethos. The origins of the the neoconservatives are closely bound up with cold war political warfare networks which sought to enlist a broad spectrum of European actors in support of US policies. US-based neoconservatives have drawn on this tradition to construct heterogeneous and at times conflicting alliances extending from the far-right to the liberal-left.

Powerbase has a policy of strict referencing and is overseen by an Managing editor and a Sysop and several associate portal editors. The editor of the Neoconservatives Portal is Tom Griffin.

Precursors

• Non-Communist Left | Max Schachtman | Jay Lovestone | Sidney Hook | Social Democrats USA
• Albert Wohlstetter
• Leo Strauss | Allan Bloom

1960s

• Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defence Policy

1970s

• Coalition for a Democratic Majority | Team B | Committee on the Present Danger

1980s

• Iran-Contra scandal

1990s

• Project for the New American Century

21st Century

• Iraq War 2003

Key US neoconservatives

Policy makers

Elliott Abrams | Kenneth Adelman | William Bennett | John Bolton | Douglas Feith | Jeane Kirkpatrick | I. Lewis Libby | Richard Perle | Paul Wolfowitz | James Woolsey | David Wurmser

Journalists

Robert Bartley | David Brooks | Charles Krauthammer | William Kristol | Bret Stephens | Norman Podhoretz

Academics

Fouad Ajami | Elliot Cohen | Aaron Friedberg | Bernard Lewis | Ruth Wedgwood

Think-tank pundits

Max Boot | David Frum | Reuel Marc Gerecht | Robert Kagan | Michael Ledeen | Joshua Muravchik | Daniel Pipes | Danielle Pletka | Michael Rubin | Meyrav Wurmser

US Neoconservative Institutions

Publications

Commentary | New York Sun | Wall Street Journal | Weekly Standard

Think Tanks and Advocacy Groups

American Enterprise Institute | Center for Security Policy | Hudson Institute | Foundation for Defense of Democracies | Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs | Middle East Forum | Project for a New American Century | Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Neoconservatives in the UK

Key individuals

Dean Godson | Douglas Murray

Publications

Standpoint magazine

Think Tanks and Advocacy Groups

Centre for Social Cohesion | Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics | Policy Exchange

There are a list of categories associated with this page:

• Neocons

UK

• BritainandAmerica

US

• Richard Perle
• Bernard Lewis
• Claire Sterling
• Henry Jackson
• Albert Wohlstetter
• Daniel Pipes
• David Horowitz
• AFL-CIO

• Recent Changes to pages on Neocons

Articles

• Craig Unger, From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq, Vanity Fair, March 2007
• James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, August 10, 2006
• W. Patrick Lang, Drinking the Kool Aid, Middle East Policy Council Journal, Volume XI, Summer 2004, Number 2
• John Kampfner, The British neoconservatives, New Statesman, 12 May 2003.
• Daniel Luban, Kristol Palace, Kristol Palace], N+1, 6 October 2011.

Videos

• The Fifth Estate: The Lies That Led To War, CBC, 7 March 2007

Resources

• Empire Builders: Neoconservatives and their blueprint for US Power, Christian Science Monitor.
• The Neocons: An Illustrated Progression, "Washington Post"

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