NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of people described as neoconservatives

This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. Classifications of this sort are often disputed (see the neoconservative page for a discussion of the terms' controversies), so any listing here should not be taken as definitive. Neoconservatism refers to the political movement, ideology, and public policy goals of new conservatives in the United States, who are mainly characterized by their relatively interventionist and hawkish views on foreign policy, and their lack of support for the small government principles and restrictions on social spending, when compared with...

Name	Description	Described as neo-conservative by
Elliott Abrams	Senior director of the U.S. National Security Council, Representative for Middle Eastern Affairs	self-described ^*
Ken Adelman	Member of Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, former member of Reagan administration	self-described
Aiven Andrians	Founder of Humanistic American Religious Party (HARP)	MediaPublic
John R. Bolton	Undersecretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations	some commentators; others disagree ^*
George W. Bush	President of the United States	many commentators; others disagree
Jeb Bush	Governor of Florida	some commentators ^*
Stephen Cambone	U.S. First Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, Rumsfeld protege	some commentators; others disagree ^*
Gordon Campbell	Premier of British Columbia	many commentators; others disagree
David Cameron	Leader of the British Conservative Party	some commentators
Linda Chavez	U.S. Hispanic Republican Cabinet Appointee	many commentators
Dick Cheney	Vice President of the United States	many commentators; others disagree ^*
Eliot Cohen	member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board	self-described ^*
Ann Coulter	Columnist	self-described
Michael Danby	Australian MP	some commentators
Kenneth deGraffenried	unspecified U.S. government official	self-described
Douglas Feith	U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001	self-described
Larry Franklin	Feith lieutenant	self-described
Francis Fukuyama	U.S. President's Council on Bioethics	self-described ^*
Nathan Glazer	co-editor of The Public Interest with Irving Kristol	self-described
Stephen Harper	Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; Head of the Opposition	self-described
David Horowitz	writer, editor of Frontpagemag.com, former editor of Ramparts Magazine	some commentators; disputes description
Donald Kagan	Yale historian	self-described ^*
Robert Kagan	co-founder of the Project for the New American Century	self-described ^*
Ralph Klein	Premier of Alberta	many commentators
Irving Kristol	founder of The Public Interest and The National Interest	self-described ^*
William Kristol	co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, editor of the Weekly Standard	self-described ^*
Lewis Libby (Scooter Libby)	Chief of Staff for the U.S. Vice President	Self-described ^*
William J. Luti	U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense	some commentators
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Former Democratic Senator, U.N. Ambassador, and advisor to four U.S. Presidents	self-described
Richard Perle	Former Chairman of the U.S. Defense Policy Board	self-described ^*
Daniel Pipes	journalist and author	self-described
Harold Rhode	Foreign Affairs Specialist, U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense	self-described
Henry Rowen	former president of Rand Corporation	many commentators ^*
Michael Rubin	lecturer and scholar, Office of Special Plans	self-described
Donald Rumsfeld	U.S. Secretary of Defense	many commentators; others disagree ^*
Randy Scheunemann	U.S. Committee on NATO, founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq	Self-described ^*
Abram Shulsky	Director of the U.S. Office of Special Plans	self-described ^*
Irwin Stelzer	economist and columnist	self-described
Mark Steyn	author and commentator	self-described
Leo Strauss	academic, considered the "father of neoconservatism"	some commentators; others disagree
Barry Watts	Northrop Grumman	Many commentators ^*
Vin Weber	former U.S. congressman, lobbyist	self-described ^*
George Weigel	political commentator	self-described ^*
Paul Wolfowitz	President of the World Bank, former Deputy Secretary of Defense	self-described ^*
R. James Woolsey	Director of Central Intelligence under President Clinton	many commentators ^*
David Wurmser	Middle East Adviser, Office of the U.S. Vice President	self-described
Meyrav Wurmser	Co-founder MEMRI, Director CMEP, Advisor Ariel Center for Policy Research	self-described
Dov Zakheim	former Comptroller, U.S. Department of Defense	Fukuyama and other observers ^*
Robert B. Zoellick	Deputy U.S. Secretary of State	some commentators; others disagree ^*

^* An asterisk denotes members of the Project for the New American Century, one of the most influential neo-conservative groups. Elliot Abrams Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948), a lawyer, is a member of the administration of President George W. Bush. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Ken Adelman is a member of the Pentagons Defense Policy Board well-known for his involvement in right-wing policy efforts dating back to the 1970s, when he was a member of the neoconservative Committee on the Present Danger. ... Aiven Andrians , also known as Aiven The Great , was born in the latter stages of the 20th century to a middle class Armenian family , then residing in Tehran the capital of Iran once known as the The Great Persian ( Aryan ) Empire . ... John R. Bolton John Robert Bolton, (born November 20, 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American political figure and diplomat. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... John Ellis Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, is the forty-third and current Governor of Florida. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Photo of Cambone Stephen A. Cambone (born 1951) is the United States Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003, and of which he was the first occupant. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... For the recipient of the Victoria Cross, see Gordon Campbell, VC For the Scottish Conservative politician, see Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy The Honourable Gordon Muir Campbell, BA, MBA, MLA, (born January 12, 1948) is the current Premier of British Columbia. ... Rt Hon David Cameron MP The Right Honourable David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician, Leader of the Conservative Party, and Leader of Her Majestys Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons. ... Linda Chavez, born June 17, 1947, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a prominent Hispanic American conservative author, commentator, who hosts a daily radio show on WMET 1160 AM radio in Washington, DC.. She also writes a weekly syndicated column. ... Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941), widely known as Dick Cheney, is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States under President George W. Bush. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Eliot A. Cohen is considered to be a neo-conservative. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Ann Coulter on the FOX News Channel Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American syndicated columnist, bestselling author, and television pundit. ... Michael Danby Michael David Danby (born 16 February 1955), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria. ... Douglas Feith Douglas J. Feith (born July 16, 1953) served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush from July 2001 until he resigned from his position effective August 8, 2005. ... Lawrence Anthony Franklin is a U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pled guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to Israel through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the... Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American political economist and author. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Nathan Glazer (b. ... The Public Interest is a conservative politics and culture journal founded by Irving Kristol in 1965. ... Irving Kristol (born 1920) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. ... The Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP, MA (born April 20, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Leader of the Official Opposition. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ... David Horowitz David Horowitz is a conservative author and political commentator. ... FrontPageMag. ... Ramparts was a American political and literary magazine which appeared between 1962 and 1975. ... Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Robert Kagan (born 1958) is an American neoconservative scholar and political commentator. ... The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... The Honourable Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ... Irving Kristol (born 1920) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. ... The Public Interest is a conservative politics and culture journal founded by Irving Kristol in 1965. ... The National Interest is a prominent quarterly international affairs journal, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and currently published by the Nixon Center. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... William Kristol featured on BBC Newsnight William Bill Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American political commentator and columnist. ... The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. ... The Weekly Standard is an American Conservative political magazine published 48 times per year. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... --66. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. ... Daniel Patrick Moynihan Daniel Patrick Pat Moynihan (March 16, 1927 â€“ March 26, 2003) was a U.S. Senator, ambassador, and academic. ... Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941 in New York City), is an American political advisor who served the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes is an American neoconservative [1] columnist, author, counter-terrorism analyst, and scholar of Middle Eastern history. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Alternate meanings: See RAND (disambiguation) The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Office of Special Plans, which existed from September, 2002, to June, 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Donald Rumsfeld and led by Douglas Feith, dealing with intelligence on Iraq. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is an American politician and businessman who has served as the 21st Secretary of Defense of the United States since January 20, 2001, under President George W. Bush. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Randy Scheunemann was Trent Lotts National Security Aide and is an advisor to Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... The Office of Special Plans, which existed from September, 2002, to June, 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Donald Rumsfeld and led by Douglas Feith, dealing with intelligence on Iraq. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Irwin M. Stelzer (born 1932) is an American economist. ... Mark Steyn is a Canadian journalist, columnist, and film and theatre critic. ... Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 â€“ October 18, 1973), was a Jewish German-American political philosopher and Intellectual Historian. ... The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between Northrop and Grumman. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... John Vincent Weber, a Congressman from Minnesota; born in Slayton, Murray County, Minnesota, July 24, 1952; attended the public schools; attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1970-1974; copublisher, Murray County newspaper; president, Weber Publishing Co. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... George Weigel (Baltimore, 1951 - ) is an American conservative author, Roman Catholic theologian and polical and social activist. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American academic and political figure. ... Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Robert James Woolsey, Jr. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Dr. Dov S. Zakheim is a former political and economic adviser to the United States government. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... Robert B. Zoellick Robert Bruce Zoellick (born July 25, 1953), appointed United States Trade Representative, assumed office on February 7, 2001. ... This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. ... The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. ...

External links

Conservative National Review Online essays on Neoconservatism, Part One and Part Two
RightWeb, a highly critical examination of neoconservatives and neoconservatism (from rightweb)

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neoconservatism: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (7340 words)
	Neoconservatives also have a very strong belief in the ability of the United States to install democracy after a conflict - comparisons with denazification in Germany and installing a democratic government in Japan starting in 1945 are often made - and they have a principled belief in defending democracies against aggression.
	Neoconservatives were also members of the blue team, which argued for a confrontational policy toward the People's Republic of China and strong military and diplomatic support for Taiwan.
	Neoconservative identification with the State of Israel's struggle against terrorism was furthered by the September 11 attacks, which served to create a perceived parallel between the United States and Israel as democratic nations under the threat of terrorist attack.

NPR : Francis Fukuyama on Neo-Cons, Foreign Policy (2021 words)
	Neoconservative intellectuals, in their years out of power before the 2000 election, had proposed a foreign policy agenda involving concepts like regime change, benevolent hegemony, unipolarity, preemption, and American exceptionalism that came to be hallmarks of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
	It also draws on a neoconservative principle that neoconservatives seemed to have forgotten in the lead-up to the Iraq war: namely, that ambitious social engineering is very difficult and ought always to be approached with care and humility.
	Neither realists nor neoconservatives have paid sufficient attention to the problem of development over the years, nor have they focused on parts of the world like Africa or Latin America where development is most problematic (except, of course, when countries in these regions become security threats).

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