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Foreign policy doctrine associated with the 2002 US strategy. It favours military force and preemptive action against threats, alongside the international promotion of democracy, open markets and US-led alliances.
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I want democracies and open markets protected by strong alliances, with preemptive military action against security threats.
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Leans further toward militarist than 98% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
An American statesman, George W. Bush united religious conservatism, tax cuts, and a neoconservative foreign policy, marked by the War on Terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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A global power and presidential federal republic, the United States combines a strong liberal tradition, a dynamic market economy, technological innovation, and a two-party system that polarizes national political life.
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A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Israel combines a vibrant democracy, a strong Jewish national identity, an advanced technology economy, and a prolonged conflict with the Palestinians that dominates its politics and security.
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Under Ronald Reagan, the United States cut taxes and deregulated the economy, confronted unions, expanded military spending against the Soviet Union and gave the religious right a voice, in a competitive democracy with growing deficits.
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Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
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Regime that introduces radical free-market policies under a military dictatorship, with privatizations, trade opening and Chicago School economists, restricting unions, parties and opponents in the name of order and anticommunism.
Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
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