| ID | 051401 |
| Title Proper | End of the neo-conservative moment |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ikenberry, G John |
| Publication | 2004. |
| Description | p7-22 |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the past two years, a set of hard-line, fundamentalist ideas have taken Washington by storm and provided the intellectual rationale for a radical post-11 September reorientation of American foreign policy. But this new fundamentalism has turned into a costly misadventure. As a grand strategic approach to global leadership, it has failed. It is hard to think of another instance in American diplomatic history where a strategic wrong turn has done so much damage to the country's international position – its prestige, credibility, security partnerships and the goodwill of other countries – in such a short time, with so little to show for it. A single-minded American campaign against terrorism and rogue states in which countries are either ‘with us or against us’ and bullied into support is not leadership but a geostrategic wrecking ball that will destroy America's own half-century old international architecture. Long after the new fundamentalist thinking fades away, American diplomats will be repairing the damaged relations and political disarray it wrought. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival Vol. 46, No. 1; Spring 2004: p7-22 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 46 No 1 |
| Key Words | Fundamentalism ; United States-International Relations ; Diplomacy ; United States |