Neoconservatism (disambiguation)
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Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered "new" forms of conservatism. The Canadian, American, and Japanese usages are somewhat related; but the connotations of the word in China and in Iran are entirely different.
[edit] Western democracies
In Western democracies, especially the United States, neoconservatism is particularly associated with assertively interventionist foreign policy, an emphasis on free trade/free market economics, and a disapproval of counterculture; it may also be strongly associated with particular domestic policy positions, although these vary more from country to country.
For the associated economic policy, see neoliberalism.
[edit] Iran
Neoconservatism has a very different meaning in Iran where it is used synonymously with neo-fundamentalism to indicate the conviction that religious authority should be legally enforced (Shia fundamentalism), but coupled with a regard for modernist ideas of technological and social change, often drawing on populism, marxism and fascism. Another synonym is radical fundamentalism.
[edit] China
In China, neoconservatism refers to the view that progress is best accomplished through gradual reform of society, eschewing revolution and sudden overthrow of the governmental system.
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