Neoconservatism rebranded as imperial foreign-policy hawkishness by 2003.
Evidence
The term “neoconservatism” reappeared in the later Clinton years as a shorthand. designation for an influential group of imperial hawks, organized in something called the Project for a New American Century and linked to the rightwing think tank the American Enterprise Institute. This group distinguished itself by providing the monumentally mendacious rationale for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq (Mann 2004). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 195
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Documents how the term ‘neoconservatism’ shifted meaning from racial policy to foreign policy.
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