American neoconservatism, a complex ideological movement not to be caricatured

In the United States, a school of thought has often been in the spotlight: neoconservatism. It is often associated with an “aggressive” foreign policy, notably that pursued by the administration of George W. Bush in the Middle East in the early 2000s. Neoconservatism is in reality a much older and more complex movement, which developed a particular vision of domestic and international affairs. In American neoconservatism. Democracy as its standardpublished by PUF, Pierre Bourgois intends to show the ideological richness of this current. This lecturer in political science at the Catholic University of the West, in Angers, returns to this movement.