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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Neoconservatism’s Theory Gap

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/neoconservatisms-theory-gap/

The American Conservative

Neoconservatism’s Theory Gap

America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, Bret Stephens, Sentinel, 288 pages

By Leon HadarDecember 18, 2014
A college professor teaching a course on theories of international relations would not find it hard to prepare for his or her students an anthology of articles or book chapters written by authors representing the major schools of thought in the field. That would hold true for realism or idealism (in their traditional of “neo” versions), liberalism (including “neo” and “post”), or Marxism, or the various alternative approaches such a post-structuralism and post-modernism, as well as efforts to apply feminism or green theory.
So it’s not surprising that our enterprising IR professor, recognizing the extent to which a school of thought known as neoconservatism has shaped American foreign policy in recent decades—even transforming it in a dramatic way through the Iraq War and the Freedom Agenda—would also search for a major work written by a leading neoconservative thinker that could provide the students with a serious and coherent overview of the neoconservative theory of international relations in its most updated version.http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/neoconservatisms-theory-gap/

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