Donald Trump and Neoconservantism

Authors

  • Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira Unifesp
  • José Felipe Ribeiro Calandrelli Unifesp

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2017v24n38p380

Abstract

The relation of neoconservatives with the Republican Party emerged when they decided to support the candidacy of Ronald Reagan. Since then, the group is being identified as part of the north-American republican spectrum. In 2016 elections some exponents of the neoconservative thinking were opposed to the election of Donald Trump even supporting the democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. By examining the literature produced by the conservatives themselves in relation to Trump and also the literature regarding neoconservativism, we tried to understand the support for Clinton in the light of “neocon” thought and what it means. Analyzing the main issues of the ideology that guide their actions and discourses, added to the current literature produced about the studied theme, it is possible to reason that the support for the democratic candidate is much more consistent with this line of thought. However, this should not represent a fleeing of neoconservatives from the Republican party.

 

Author Biographies

Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, Unifesp

PhD em International Studies pela Old Dominion University (Virgínia, EUA) com título de doutor reconhecido no Brasil pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Mestre em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa de Pós Graduação San Tiago Dantas (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP), onde atualmente é professor. Bacharel em Administração pela Universidade Mackenzie e em Relações Internacionais pela PUC-SP, onde atualmente é professor e chefe do Departamento de Relações Internacionais. Professor do curso de Relações Internacionais da FAAP. Coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos sobre a Política Externa dos Estados Unidos (NEPEU). Autor dos livros "Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem" (Lexington, 2012), apontado pela revista "Foreign Affairs" como um dos melhores livros de relações internacionais de 2012, e "O Pensamento Neoconservador em Política Externa nos Estados Unidos" (UNESP, 2010), baseado na dissertação de mestrado vencedora do ?Prêmio Franklin Delano Roosevelt de estudos sobre os Estados Unidos? (2008).

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José Felipe Ribeiro Calandrelli, Unifesp

Possui graduação em Relations Internationales pela Université de Genève(2017) e graduação em Relações Internacionais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo(2018). Tem experiência na área de Ciência Política, com ênfase em Política Internacional. 

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2017-12-04

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Teixeira, C. G. P., & Calandrelli, J. F. R. (2017). Donald Trump and Neoconservantism. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 24(38), 380–395. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2017v24n38p380

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Vol. 24 No. 38 (2017): Dossiê: Os Estados Unidos na Era Trump

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