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Neoconservatism: History & Measurement

Neoconservatism (colloquially neocon) is a political movement that combines features of traditional political and social conservatism with individualism and a qualified endorsement of free markets along with the assertive promotion of democracy and national interest, including through military means.

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Neoconservatism topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Neoconservatism. 2 topics appear in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
396
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
407
Extracted relationships
233
Concept neighborhoods
120
Bridge connections
407

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 149 topics
Notable people associated with neoconservatism · 102 topics
Overview · 55 topics
Evolution of opinions · 50 topics
Terminology · 15 topics
Criticism · 13 topics
Related publications and institutions · 10 topics
Other countries · 3 topics
Critiques · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Terminology

History

Evolution of opinions

Criticism

Notable people associated with neoconservatism

Related publications and institutions

Other countries

Critiques

  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Neoconservatism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Neoconservatism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Neoconservatism → American, American Enterprise Institute, American Enterprise InstituteClifford May, American Enterprise InstituteGary Schmitt, American Enterprise InstituteRobert Kagan, Boot, Brookings Institution, CEO, Charles Krauthammer, Classics, CommentaryNorman Podhoretz, CommentaryYuval Levin, Constitutional Studies, Cultural, Decter, Defense, Democracies, Democracies Lulu Schwartz, DemocraciesCarl Gershman, DemocraciesJoshua Muravchik Another extracted example is Neoconservatism → According, American Left, Black Power, Cold War, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic, Ford, Frank Meyer, Irving Kristol, James Burnham, James Nuechterlein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Leninist, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxist, New Left, New Politics, Nixon, Norman Podhoretz, Reagan. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Neoconservatism

Top relations

related to Public figures · 56
Neoconservatism → American, American Enterprise Institute, American Enterprise InstituteClifford May, American Enterprise InstituteGary Schmitt, American Enterprise InstituteRobert Kagan, Boot, Brookings Institution, CEO, Charles Krauthammer, Classics, CommentaryNorman Podhoretz, CommentaryYuval Levin, Constitutional Studies, Cultural, Decter, Defense, Democracies, Democracies Lulu Schwartz, DemocraciesCarl Gershman, DemocraciesJoshua Muravchik
related to history · 24
Neoconservatism → According, American Left, Black Power, Cold War, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic, Ford, Frank Meyer, Irving Kristol, James Burnham, James Nuechterlein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Leninist, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxist, New Left, New Politics, Nixon, Norman Podhoretz, Reagan
related to Leo Strauss and his students · 23
Neoconservatism → American, American Founding Fathers, Bradley Thompson, Chicago, Clemson University, Eugene Sheppard, Great Tradition, Greek, His, Judeo-Christian, Leo Strauss, Much, Nazi Germany, New School, New York, Social Research, Strauss, Strauss's, The Greek, Thomas
related to 2008 presidential election and aftermath · 22
Neoconservatism → Ambassador, Barack Obama, Bush, Bush's, Bush's Defense Secretary, Bush's Iraq-war, David Petraeus, Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain, NATO, Neoconservative, Obama, Republican, Robert Gates, State, The New York Times, United States
related to External links · 18
Neoconservatism → American Unipolarism, Archive, BBC, Demise, Encyclopædia BritannicaAdam Curtis, Foreign Policy, Jim Lobe, Jim LobeThe Rise, Justin Vaïsse, Maria RyanInterview, Media, Neoconservativism, Nightmares, Nutshell, The Power, Why Neoconservatism Still Matters, Wikimedia CommonsNeoconservatism, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Views on economics · 13
Neoconservatism → After, Americans, Critics, Hayekian, Indeed, Irving Kristol, Kristol, Neoconservative, Political, So, They, While, Zeev Sternhell
related to Critiques · 12
Neoconservatism → After Neoconservatism, An Obituary, Boulder/London, Bradley, Francis, Fukuyama, Idea, ISBN, Paradigm Publishers, The New York Times, Thompson, Yaron Brook
related to Friction with other conservatives · 12
Neoconservatism → America Alone, Buckley Jr, Cato, Disputes, For, Global Order, Jonathan Clarke, Many, Responding, Stefan Halper, The Neo-Conservatives, William
related to Usage and general views · 10
Neoconservatism → During, He, Irving Kristol, Kristol, Michael Harrington, Nixon, Soviet Union, These, They, Vietnam War
related to Friction with paleoconservatism · 6
Neoconservatism → Dostoyevskian, He, Israel, Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Starting

Important terminology

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Important terminology

neoconservatives policy former neoconservative foreign bush united states american new republican liberal left administration defense president war national secretary state

Neoconservatism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 233 structured relationships around Neoconservatism. Examples in this analysis include Frank Meyer → instance of → Some left-wing academics and George Will → instance of → Author Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Frank Meyerinstance ofSome left-wing academics0.80text
James Burnham eventually became associated with the conservative movement at this time.A substantial number of neoconservatives were originally moderate socialists who were originally associated with the moderate wing of the Socialist Party of Americainstance ofSome left-wing academics0.80text
George Willinstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
Irving Kristol to cancel Reagan's 1980 nomination of Mel Bradfordinstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
a Southern Paleoconservative academic whose regionalist focusinstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
writings about Abraham Lincolninstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
Reconstruction alienated the more cosmopolitaninstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
progress-oriented neoconservativesinstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
to the leadership of the National Endowment for the Humanities in favor of longtime Democrat William Bennett as emblematic of the neoconservative movement establishing hegemony over mainstream American conservatism.In anotherinstance ofAuthor Keith Preston named the successful effort on behalf of neoconservatives0.80text
the Soviet Unioninstance ofKirkpatrick distinguished between authoritarian regimes and the totalitarian regimes0.80text
the Kurdsinstance ofmany neoconservatives considered this policy and the decision not to endorse indigenous dissident groups0.80text
Shiites in their 1991instance ofmany neoconservatives considered this policy and the decision not to endorse indigenous dissident groups0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Neoconservatism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include New, Political and Also. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Neoconservatism
    • New
    • Political
    • Also
    • Conservatism
    • Foreign
    • Social
    • Policy
    • American
    • Military
    • War
    • States
    • United
  • neoconservatism
    • New
    • Political
    • Also
    • Conservatism
    • Foreign
    • Social
    • Policy
    • American
    • Military
    • War
    • States
    • United
  • political movement
    • Social
    • Republican
    • States
    • Kristol
    • American
    • State
    • Liberal
    • President
    • Defense
    • United
    • Neoconservative
    • Former
  • social conservatism
    • Social
    • Kristol
    • Also
    • Neoconservatism
    • Liberal
    • National
    • Government
    • War
    • Military
    • Neoconservative
    • New
    • American
  • democracy
    • National
    • Social
    • Political
    • Liberal
    • President
    • Foreign
    • Government
    • Military
    • Security
    • Kristol
    • Neoconservatives
    • States
  • military means
    • Power
    • Political
    • National
    • Policy
    • Neoconservatism
    • Defense
    • States
    • United
    • Security
    • American
    • Democratic
    • Former
  • united states
    • United
    • Secretary
    • State
    • Policy
    • Neoconservative
    • Iraq
    • Former
    • Party
    • Defense
    • Security
    • Liberal
    • War
  • liberal hawks
    • Kristol
    • Social
    • Defense
    • Party
    • States
    • Political
    • Also
    • United
    • International
    • New
    • American
    • John

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Neoconservatism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Neoconservatism with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Neoconservatism — History · splits 258 ⟂ 150
Neoconservatism — Notable people associated with neoconservatism · splits 305 ⟂ 103
Neoconservatism — Overview · splits 352 ⟂ 56
Neoconservatism — Evolution of opinions · splits 357 ⟂ 51
Neoconservatism — Terminology · splits 392 ⟂ 16
Neoconservatism — Criticism · splits 394 ⟂ 14
Neoconservatism — Related publications and institutions · splits 397 ⟂ 11
Neoconservatism — Other countries · splits 404 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Neoconservatism

Nodes408
Edges407
Triples233
Avg. degree2
Density0.004902
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Neoconservatism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Neoconservatism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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