The PNAC undoubtedly represented the post-Cold War „neoconservative moment“ and played an important role in the intellectual revival of neoconservatism in the second half of the 1990s (Dworkin in 2006). Its culmination coincides with that of neoconservatism in general, that is, in the early 2000s, when the Bush administration seemed to be pursuing a foreign policy strongly inspired by neoconservative thinking. While some observers consider the overall record of the PNAC to be generally positive, since the organization has achieved its main mission of reorienting American foreign policy, its closure nevertheless enters the global framework of the decline of the American neoconservatist public and the discrediting of neoconservative thought. The PNAC has thus contributed, in some way, to the rise and fall of the neoconservatism of the „new generation“. The various disagreements between neoconservatives from about 2004 on have had an undeniable impact on the think tank, which seemed to bring everyone together until that date. The international situation, in particular, had largely discredited the neoconservative ideas defended by the PNAC. Its closure in 2006, whatever the reasons, must therefore be seen as a general decline in American neoconservatism. Rozen, L. (2009), „PNAC 2.0?“, Foreign Policy, March 26. Available at: foreignpolicy.com/2009/03/26/pnac-2-0/ (available on 11.10.2017). PNAC (1997), „About PNAC“, PNAC website. Available at: web.archive.org/web/20070811202256/www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm (available on 11.05.2017).
. The main enemy was inside; According to Kagan and Kristol, it was „once again time to challenge an indifferent America and confused American conservatism.“ „In a world where American peace and security depend on American power and the willingness to use it, the main threat the United States faces today and in the future is its own weakness. Us hegemony is the only reliable defense against the collapse of peace and international order. The appropriate goal of US foreign policy is therefore to preserve this hegemony as much as possible in the future. To achieve this goal, the United States needs a neo-Reagan foreign policy of military supremacy and moral confidence. [8] PNAC served as an institutional vehicle to promote the ideas outlined in this article. Hosted in the same Washington, D.C. As the office building of the American Enterprise Institute, PNAC has been occupied by a number of emerging neoconservatives who have written statements and open letters on different topics and collected signatures from elite political actors. .
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