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Parent topics
- American conservatism [r]: A diverse mix of political ideologies that share support for market economics, some view of American exceptionalism and, generally, decentralization of government; differing views of individual liberties versus enforcement of morality; in opposition to liberalism, socialism and communism; factions include libertarianism, social conservatism, nativism (politics) and neoconservatism [e]
- U.S. Republican Party [r]: One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol. [e]
- U.S. House of Representatives [r]: The lower house of the United States Congress. [e]
Subtopics
- Democracy promotion [r]: Policies, assistance, external organizations and even military action that contribute to the formation of democratic societies in previously authoritarian states; the means for funding such action [e]
- Council on Foreign Relations [r]: An influential "think tank", publisher, and facilitator of communications in international relations; based in the US but with an international membership and not associated with a specific ideology [e]
- Project for the New American Century [r]: neoconservative think tank and interest group, formed, in its words, to promote the foreign policy principles of the Reagan Administration: "a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities;" actively supported regime change and preventive war in the Middle East [e]
- Defense Policy Board [r]: A group of part-time senior strategic advisers to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
- University of Minnesota [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neoconservatism [r]: A political philosophy and ideology which combines many traditional conservative opinions with an emphasis on the importance of foreign policy and using American power to push democracy forward. [e]
- Nuclear weapons [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- Conservative Opportunity Society [r]: American conservative group in the U.S. House of Representatives, formed in 1983 by Newt Gingrich, Vin Weber and Bob Walker, which produced the 1994 Contract with America [e]
- Newt Gingrich [r]: Former Republican Speaker of the House; cofounder of the Conservative Opportunity Society and led the Contract with America platform statement; historian; board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Guiding Coalition, Project for National Security Reform [e]
- Bob Walker [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Pennsylvania) between 1976 and 1997; cofounder of the Conservative Opportunity Society [e]
- Restructuring of the U.S. political right [r]: A broad category of efforts to regain U.S. political dominance by various combinations of social, fiscal, and national security ideologies, generally seen as of the Right and possibly U.S. Republican Party, as opposed to the center-left position of the Barack Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress [e]
- Liz Cheney [r]: neoconservative attorney; daughter of Dick Cheney and assisting him with his memoirs; founding board member of Keep America Safe and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of War; State Department official for the Middle East 2002-2006 [e]
- Constitution Project [r]: Add brief definition or description