Neocon Europe:About

From Neocon Europe

The Neocon Europe website is designed to help people find out more about the Neoconservative networks operating in Europe. It is an attempt to monitor and publicise the sometime covert and not always visible activities of Neoconservatives attempting to internationalise their movement.

To this end, Neocon Europe aims to profile people and organisations in the following categories:

• US and international neoconservatives active in Europe. This included 'Scoop Jackson Democrats' as well as those associated with the Republican party.

• Europeans who self-identify as neoconservatives or who have been heavily influenced by the US neoconservative tradition.

• Europeans participating in projects and organisations with significant neoconservative participation, or which reflect a neoconservative ethos. The origins of the the neoconservatives are closely bound up with cold war political warfare networks which sought to enlist a broad spectrum of European actors in support of US policies. US-based neoconservatives have drawn on this tradition to construct heterogenous and at times conflicting alliances extending from the far-right to the liberal-left. Understanding these alliances and those involved is critical to a clear picture of neoconservative activity in Europe.

This means that the site will include profiles of people who do not define themselves as Neoconservatives and indeed those who are not Neoconservative. Just as many neoconservatives moved from the left to the right of the political spectrum, people and organisations which have been or are associated with or have or do work in or with neoconservative led initiatives, can and do move in their political alliances and activities. Thus there are profiles in this database of people who are not neoconservatives and may no longer be associated or connected with neoconservative networks or inititatives. In addition there are a number of 'stub' pages which serve simply to direct the reader to resources on relevant people and organisations that do not come within the definition above. Te existence of such pages should not be taken to indicate any contention that such people or organisations are neoconservative or directly connected to neoconservatism or its networks.

The following websites cover networks which do not, in themselves, come within this definition:

• US neoconservativism and right wing networks: See Right Web
• Strands of Atlanticism and interventionism other than neoconservatism: See SpinProfiles
• Pro-Israel and Zionist strands other than those allied to neoconservatism: See SpinProfiles

The project is directed by David Miller Much of the research originates from Phd projects being undertaken by Tom Griffin and Idrees Ahmad at the University of Strathclyde, together with additional research and information supplied by a small number of others.