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neo-con

British  
/ ˌniːəʊˈkɒn /

noun

  1. informal

    1. a neo-conservative

    2. ( as modifier )

      a neo-con think tank

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Between them the Americans and the Europeans have enough voting power to stitch up the two plum jobs, which is why George W Bush was able to choose the arch neo-con Paul Wolfowitz to head the bank in 2005 and why there was no objection from Barack Obama when Christine Lagarde emerged as the European candidate to run the IMF.

From The Guardian

Max Boot, neo-con fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations — who apparently still supports the Iraq War and demanded ones in Syria and Libya, while arguing that America should become a world empire — articulated the risk in theWashington Post.

From Salon

The bombing of Syria, for instance, was not a sudden lurch either in the direction of liberal interventionism, à la Bill Clinton in the lands that were once Yugoslavia, nor was it a sudden reassertion of a neo-con version of American power, à la both Bushes in Iraq.

From The New Yorker

Instead, this neo-con alternative would provide a vehicle for foreign policy hawks in the GOP who are dissatisfied with Trump’s isolationist tendencies but also can’t see themselves voting for Clinton.

From Time

Mr Griffin, who was expelled by the BNP in 2014, argues that Western leaders are fulfilling a "neo-con/Zionist" agenda, which helps Israel.

From BBC