Neoconservatism,from utopia to decline

Abstract

This dissertation aims to discuss the rise of United States neoconservatism as a utopian ideology emerging following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This study argues the decline of American hegemony as a result of an excess of neoconservative power under the Bush administration. The return of a unipolar world in the post-Cold War era developed overconfidence in the omnipotence of the neoconservative policymakers and intellectuals which overarched the importance of the American military power. This work will provide a syllogism of the neoconservatism prosperity era, through the Project for the New American Century that resulted to the end of the neoconservatives’ utopianism. In this framework, after gaining a worldwide popularity, neoconservatism started carrying the grain of its own decline and that of the American Empire. The new global system has changed from a “World Order” to a “World Disorder”, being dominated more by economic than military power. Therefore, in the post-Iraq War era, the world sees a shift of power from unipolarity to multipolarity. In short, this work represents an attempt to identify the impact of neoconservatism on the United States as well as on the world, and to assess the continuity role of the emergent powers, such as: China, Russia, Turkey and the European Unio