Neoconservatism doctrine 2102-FA-DONE

"Never much admired in the academy, in literary circles, or among fashionable journalists since its emergence in the 1960s and '70s, neoconservatism in the post-9/11 world has, particularly in polite society, come into especially ill repute. For allegedly enabling George W. Bush to drag the nation into a misbegotten and catastrophically harmful war in Iraq, neoconservatives have been subject to relentless vilification. They are cowards, "chickenhawks," who clamor to send other people's children to fight and fall in faraway lands. They are illiberal and antidemocratic followers of Leo Strauss; in accordance with their master's teaching, they dream of, and may be perilously well advanced in establishing, a secret elite to rule the nation and, through the nation's empire, the world. And they flirt with dual loyalty by serving as spear carriers in America for the expansionist policies of Israel's right-wing Likud party". I quoted on purpose Peter Berkowitz from George Mason Law School and the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford to demosntrate how a hot dispute is continuing in the United Kingdom and the US about the content of the neocon's platform. The debate also includes a message having been sent by the neoconservatives to the political leaders .
It is quite relevant in Poland to discuss the main neoconservative ideas and concepts in times when we are facing the coming of the conservative revolution here. I, therefore, offer a proposal concerning the issue and problems claimed by the New Right in the contemporary world.

The seminar is divided into three parts. The first one will concern intelectual origins of the neoconservative movement. We will read texts of Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Friedrich von Hayek, Paul Gottfried, Allan Bloom. The second part covers a debate which continues both in the United Kingdom and the US about the content and coherence of the neocon ideas. The last part directs our attention to the domain of the domestic and foreign policy. It shall, unavoidably, touch the messy question of accountability for the Iraq war.