Foreign Policymaking and Perspective
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2011-02-16
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"Neoconservatives" have consistently mistrusted the traditional intelligence bureaucracy in America. This fact and the tendency of neoconservative policymakers to politicize (skew for political purposes) intelligence information is a direct result of the way that these policymakers perceive the world. By creating a historical framework that maps neoconservative perspectives on foreign policy and intelligence throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the explicit connection between belief system and uses of intelligence becomes quite clear.