Right-Wing Movements in the U.S.
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There are a number of right-wing movements in the United States that have a direct impact on policy formation. This is true both for domestic and foreign policy. According to Diamond (1995), right-wing movements gained increased significance after World War II by focusing on the threat of Communism and the expansion of the welfare state. Both of these threats were viewed as disruptive to the agenda of such groups, one that promoted nationalism and limited government. As Diamond (1995) writes, ôMany right-wing activists had opposed the United StatesÆ entry into World War II as vociferously as they had opposed the New Deal economic policies of the 1930s and 1940s,ö (19). Today, right-wing groups continue to influence both domestic and foreign policy, focusing on the use of U.S. force to implement neo-liberal economic models in foreign states considered antagonistic to free trade and development. Barry (2002) argues that there are ten right-wing sectors that have an impact of U.S. domestic and foreign policy: Anticommunists, Christian Right, Conservative Internationalists, Conservative Mainstream, Libertarians, National Security Militarists, Neoconservatives, New Right, Paleoconservatives, and Social Conservatives, (1-4). The Neoconservatives and the Christian Right (also known as the Religious Right) play the most significant role in shaping domestic and foreign policy. Neoconservatives play a significant role in the formation of foreign policy w
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ch groups. As Diamond (1995) maintains, ôforeign policy offered the greatest (political) opportunities for a flourishing alliance between right-wing movements and the (Reagan) administration,ö (206).
During the 1980s it was foreign and military policy that both energized and unified New Right and Neoconservative activist. Such policies includes ones in the Middle East and Latin America that were aimed at protecting U.S. interests (the pursuit of oil), while undermining regimes considered a threat to the U.S. and its interests. In the Middle East, rising Islamic extremism was used as an excuse for greater U.S. military and economic aid to Israel. Nevertheless, at the same time the military-industrial complex (National Security Militarists) was also supplying arms to autocratic regimes in Turkey, Iran, and even Saddam HusseinÆs Iraq. However, the New Right and Neoconservatives were intent on providing support to Israel against the threat of Palestinian attacks. U.S. policy support militarization of the region for this purpose. The U.S. also vetoed any U.N. Security Council Resolutions that condemned Israel for attacks on Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. In addition, the U.S. vetoed U.N. Security Council Resolu
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