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New Warriors among American Foreign Policy Theorists

New Warriors among American Foreign Policy Theorists magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute announced: ‘‘Real Men Are Back.’’ The issue contained various articles about these ‘‘real men’’ who have taken over after the supposedly teenage interlude of the Clinton administration. The return of a publicly trumpeted masculinist order accompanies a flurry 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-identified 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 ‘‘real men’’ and ‘‘neoimperialist’’ 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 ‘‘real men.’’ Like Paul Wolfowitz, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

New Warriors among American Foreign Policy Theorists

South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 105 (1) – Jan 1, 2006

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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1527-8026
DOI
10.1215/00382876-105-1-109
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Abstract

magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute announced: ‘‘Real Men Are Back.’’ The issue contained various articles about these ‘‘real men’’ who have taken over after the supposedly teenage interlude of the Clinton administration. The return of a publicly trumpeted masculinist order accompanies a flurry 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-identified 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 ‘‘real men’’ and ‘‘neoimperialist’’ 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 ‘‘real men.’’ Like Paul Wolfowitz,

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Published: Jan 1, 2006

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