Neocon Links

The Neoconservative phenomenon has resulted in a cottage industry of reporting, hypothesis and analysis. We list on this page some key resources for further research and reading.

Guides to the Neocon movement

• POLITICS: What Is a Neo-Conservative Anyway? Commentary - By Jim Lobe, Inter Press service, 12 August 2003.

Online resources and databases

• Rightweb, the best compilation of data and profiles on Neocons and the US Right.
• Sourcewatch The wiki based website from the Center for Media and Democracy. See their page on Neoconservatives
• NameBase Hand-compiled searchable database of book and article references to named individuals.
• History Commons, Collaborative journalism site based around event and entity timelines.

Neoconservatives on the web

• Links related to 'neoconservatism' on the bookmarking service del.icio.us
• Alertnet: http://www.alternet.org/

Other compilations of resources

A Neoconservative Reading List at Amazon, mainly books by Neocons.

Books, articles and other resources

Books

• Jacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, Doubleday, 2008.
• Stephen J. Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, IHS Press, 2008.
• Grant F. Smith, Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America, IRMEP, 2006.
• Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power, Times Books, 1986

Films

• Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, Channel 4, November 2009.
• The Israel Lobby, VPRO (Netherlands), 2007.
• The Power of Nightmares, BBC, 2004.
• Hijacking Castastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire, Media Education Foundation, 2004.
• The War Party, BBC Panorama, 2003.

Resources

• MondoWeiss - Journalist Philip Weiss blogs here on issues related to the neocons and the Israel lobby.
• LobeLog - Journalist Jim Lobe's commentaries and investigations are frequently posted here.
• A Commentary on Irving Kristol's The Neoconservative Persuasion.
• The neoconservative imagination: essays in honor of Irving Kristol, by William Kristol, Christopher C. DeMuth, published by American Enterprise Institute, 1995

Articles

• Toby Archer, Countering the counter-jihad, Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor, Royal United Services Institute, 15 August 2008.
• Arun Kundnani, How are thinktanks shaping the political agenda on Muslims in Britain?, Institute of Race Relations, 2 September 2008.
• Arun Kundnani, Islamism and the roots of liberal rage, Race & Class, Vol. 50, No. 2, 40-68 (2008).
• Max Fraad Wolf, Neoconservatism and the Politics of Paranoia, Red Pepper, June 2003.

• The Neoconservative Persuasion and Foreign Policy: An Interview with Joshua Muravchik, 2007, Democratiya.
• Irwin Stelzer From Hawk to Dove: a review of After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads By Francis Fukuyama, Literary Review.
• Maria Ryan: Neoconservatives and the Dilemmas of Strategy and Ideology, 1992-2006, 49th Parallel, 2006.
• The new American militarism By A. J. Bacevich, 2005, Oxford University Press US, p,73-78.