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magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute announced: ââReal Men Are Back.ââ The issue contained various articles about these ââreal menââ who have taken over after the supposedly teenage interlude of the Clinton administration. The return of a publicly trumpeted masculinist order accompanies a ï¬urry of foreign policy theories and statements made by a group of people inadequately called neoconservatives or, more accurately, foreign policy hawks or, possibly, muscular unilateralists.1 Concurrently, theorists, not all of them self-identiï¬ed conservatives, praise the notion of an American empire, regarding its power as good or The South Atlantic Quarterly 105:1, Winter 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Duke University Press. benevolent. While the ââreal menââ and ââneoimperialistââ groups overlap, they are not exactly the same. Yet the public resurgence of what is a basically Theodore Rooseveltian theme, macho imperialism, is striking.2 At the beginning of the Iraq crisis, Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Defense Secretary, was said by some (the magazine People) to be one of the sexiest men in America; he was even asked a question about this status at one of his press conferences. So he is clearly one of what the American Enterprise Institute calls the ââreal men.ââ Like Paul Wolfowitz,
South Atlantic Quarterly – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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