Ideologies / Neo-Conservative (Neocon) / Paul Wolfowitz
§ The minds · b. 1943 · United States · Defense official
Paul Wolfowitz
The architect of the doctrine
American primacy and democracy promotion.
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SocialistMarket
Governance+30
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The defense intellectual whose doctrine of American primacy and democracy-promotion-by-force drove the foreign policy of the post-9/11 neoconservative moment.
social
Conservative on culture; idealistic about exporting democracy.
economic
Market liberalism abroad and at home.
governance
Pre-emptive force and unrivalled US power to remake regions.
Notable for
- The 'Wolfowitz Doctrine'
- Architect of the Iraq War
- Led the World Bank
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