Neoconservatism Part I — Transforming the American cultural matrix

With Salim Mansur

To understand why the United States maintains approximately 800 military in about 80 foreign countries and has been involved in numerous armed conflicts globally, it's essential to examine its foreign policy of neoconservatism.

Professor Salim Mansur of Western University provides us with a master class on neoconservatism, tracing its roots back to the influx of Eastern Europeans into the American cultural matrix during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how many of these newcomers and their descendants came to influence U.S. foreign policy, transforming it from the isolationist and benign approach intended by the Founding Fathers to one that is interventionist and belligerent.