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Mar 2005.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Neoconservatism as a doctrine has been subjected to a great deal of scrutiny due to its profound influence on American foreign policy. In particular, much has been made of the enthusiasm for strong-armed tactics. However, in recent scholarship the role of private ethics and social values in neo-conservative thought has been neglected, restricted in the main to considerations of the spread of democracy. This is unfortunate, as the means and ends of neo-conservative foreign policy may be strongly considered to derive from the domestic concerns of their moral philosophy. The increasingly widespread invocation of moral values, far from empty rhetoric, is key to understanding the rejection of realist restraints and objectives for an interventionism uninhibited by norms, treaties, multilateral institutions or law.
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