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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.
Public Sector
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Elliott Abrams, Senior director, National Security Council; son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz.
- Kenneth Adelman , member of Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, former member of Reagan administration as hawkish arms control expert.
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John Bolton, Undersecretary of State. Candidate to be U.N. Ambassador. Accused during confirmation process of abusing subordinates and politicizing intelligence reports.
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Stephen Cambone, first Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, Rumsfeld protege.
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Linda Chavez, Hispanic Republican Cabinet Appointee.
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Eliot Cohen, member Defense Policy Board.
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Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001, responsible for planning the occupation of Iraq. Resignation announced in January 2005.
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Larry Franklin, Feith lieutenant being investigated for passing government secrets to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Israeli Embassy Officials.
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Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and Our Posthuman Future, advocate of cautious and regulated approach to bio-technology on the President's Council on Bioethics. Critic of the Iraq war and some fellow neoconservatives - including Charles Krauthammer.
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I. Lewis Libby, a.k.a Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice President. Suspected of revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame as a political reprisal against her husband.
- William J. Luti , Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Former Democratic Senator, controversial U.N. Ambassador, and advisor to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Associated with the early days of the movement.
- Harold Rhode , Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
- Abram Shulsky , Director Office of Special Plans.
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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank as of June 2005. Deputy Secretary of Defense 2001-2005, a major advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- David Wurmser , Office of the Vice President, Middle East Adviser.
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Dov Zakheim, former Comptroller, Department of Defense.
Private Sector
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William Bennett, Former Secretary of Education, and "drug czar".
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David Frum, Canadian, newspaper columnist, and speechwriter.
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Donald Kagan, Yale Historian. Father of Robert Kagan.
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Frank Gaffney
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Nathan Glazer, co-editor of The Public Interest with Irving Kristol. Eschews the term "neoconservative" and had no public stanceon the Iraq War.
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Robert Kagan, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, famous for asserting the existence of a meaningful difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
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Charles Krauthammer. Columnist and academic. Advocate of Democratic Realism as a wilsonian version of Realism in international affairs. Critic of Francis Fukuyama.
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Irving Kristol, founder of The Public Interest and The National Interest. Father of William Kristol.
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William Kristol, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
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Michael Ledeen
- Philip Merrill , Chairman of the Export-Import Bank since 2001.
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Dennis Miller, comedian.
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Richard Perle, Former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board . Stepped down in early 2003 due to alleged conflict of interest.
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R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence under President Clinton.
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Norman Podhoretz
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Daniel Pipes, journalist, author, academic, and expert on Islamism and terrorism
- Ronald D. Rotunda , law professor at conservative George Mason University, argued for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay to be considered Enemy Combatants rather than Prisoners of War under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
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Michael Rubin, lecturer; former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Soref Fellow (1999-2000).
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Mark Steyn, author of several books, and politics, arts, and culture commentator for, most notably, the Chicago Sun-Times, the UK's Daily Telegraph, and The Irish Times.
External Links
- Conservative National Review Online essays on Neoconservatism, Part One and Part Two.
Last updated: 05-23-2005 05:51:06
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