Modern Conservatism as a World Perception and Political Movement: the Case of American Neocons and Paleocons

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  • Ruben Safrastyan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v2i1.49

Keywords:

conservatism, modern, perception, movement, USA, neocons, paleocons

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of mo­dern conservatism. Author offers a two-level ana­ly­sis of maim principles of this wide spread in our times political and social philosophical trend. The first one is based on its interpretation as a world per­ception of conservative way thinking person. The second considers conservatism political mo­ve­ment and investigates some important pecu­lia­ri­ties of polities of neocons and paleocons, which are the main groupings of contemporary con­ser­va­tisms in USA.

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Published

2014-06-01

How to Cite

Safrastyan, R. (2014). Modern Conservatism as a World Perception and Political Movement: the Case of American Neocons and Paleocons. WISDOM, 2(1), 96–102. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v2i1.49

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