neoconservatisme

The neoconservative ideology gained increasing influence in world politics from the early 1980s onwards. Despite the misleading name, neoconservatism is not conservative at all. Rather it is a left-wing ideology that hijacked American conservatism. Although neoconservatism cannot be traced back to one particular thinker, the political philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) and the sociologist Irving Kristol (1920-2009) are generally regarded as its founders.