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16 Revista Internacional Pensamiento Politico 403 (2021)
The Spanish Neocons: Their Ideas and Their Influence en the Foreign Policy for Jose Maria Aznar. A Vicarious Thought

handle is hein.journals/rvinpenso16 and id is 403 raw text is: LOS NEOCONS ESPANOLES: SUS IDEAS
Y SU 1NFLUEN CIA EN LA POUTICA
EXTERIOR DE JOSE MARIA AZNAR. UN
PENSAMIENTO VICARIO
THE SPANISH NEOCONS: THEIR IDEAS AND THEIR
INFLUENCE EN THE FOREGN POUCY FOR JOSE MARIA
AZNAR. A VICARIOUS THOUGHT
Luis de Castro Redondo
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Espana
luis-documentos@hotmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7114-359X
Recibido: septiembre de 2021
Aceptado: noviembre de 2021
Palabras clave: Neoconservador, Jose Maria Aznar, poliftica exterior, ruptura, think tank, pensamiento estrategico.
Keywords: Neoconservative, Jose Maria Aznar, foreign policy, breaking off, think tank, strategic thinking.
Resumen: Este artfculo tiene como objetivo explicar el hecho politico de los
neoconservadores espanoles que siguiendo a los neocons estadounidenses
importaron sus doctrinas sobre polftica exterior, en especial la teorfa de la He-
gemonfa Benevolente que justifica en virtud del poder norteamericano y de sus
ideales democraticos: la subordinacion de los Estados Occidentales ante los
Estados Unidos. En el artfculo se hace consideraciones genericas sobre el fe-
ndmeno neocon en Espana. Se estudian los principales escritos de los neocons
espanoles mas reconocidos, en particular los que tienen relacion con la Guerra
de Irak. Su influencia en la opinion pUblica y sus crfticas a la Polftica Exterior
de Rodrfguez Zapatero. El artfculo termina negando la opinion de reputados
profesores como Celestino del Arenal, Jose Antonio Sanahuja y Manuel Iglesias
Cavicchioli que mantiene que fueron los neocons espanoles los responsables
del giro de la polftica exterior de Jose Marfa Aznar en su segunda legislatura
entre los ands 2002 y 2004.
Abstract: This article aims to explain the political fact of the Spanish
neoconservatives who, following the American neoconservatives, imported
their doctrines on foreign policy, especially the Benevolent Hegemony theory
that justifies by virtue of North American power and its democratic ideals: the
subordination of the states Westerners to the United States. The article makes
generic considerations about the neoconservative phenomenon in Spain. The
main writings of the most recognized Spanish neoconservatives are studied,
especially those related to the Iraq War. His influence on public opinion and
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