neokonservatisme (biasa disingkat neokon) adalah aliran politik yang lahir di amerika serikat pada tahun 1960-an di kalangan demokrat yang tidak sepakat dengan kebijakan dalam dan luar negeri partainya.
sebagian besar pengikutnya mulai dikenal khalayak pada masa pemerintahan republik tahun 1970-an, 1980-an, 1990-an, dan 2000-an.
jumlah neokonservatif meningkat pada masa pemerintahan george w. bush dan george h.w. bush karena mereka berperan besar dalam perencanaan invasi irak 2003.
neokonservatif ternama pada masa pemerintahan george w. bush adalah paul wolfowitz, john bolton, elliott abrams, richard perle, dan paul bremer.
meski tidak mengaku neokonservatif, wakil presiden dick cheney dan menteri pertahanan donald rumsfeld mengikuti saran penasihat neokonservatif dalam hal kebijakan luar negeri, khususnya pertahanan israel dan penyebaran demokrasi di timur tengah.
kaum neokonservatif masih memengaruhi pemerintahan obama.
ideologi neokonservatif terus menjadi faktor penentu kebijakan luar negeri amerika serikat.robert singh, "neoconservatism in the age of obama,"" in inderjeet parmar and linda b. miller, eds., obama and the world: new directions in us foreign policy (routledge 2014) pp 29-40
istilah "neokonservatif" mengacu pada orang-orang yang beralih dari kiri anti-stalinis ke konservatisme amerika serikat.justin vasse, neoconservatism: the biography of a movement (harvard up, 2010) pp 6-11.
kaum neokonservatif biasanya mendukung penyebaran demokrasi dan kepentingan nasional amerika serikat dalam hubungan internasional, salah satunya lewat serangan militer.
mereka juga dikenal membenci komunisme dan radikalisme politik.
britannica  academic edition.
retrieved 11 november 2012.www.merriam-webster.com/.
retrieved 11 november 2012.
gagasan aliran ini pertama kali muncul di majalah bulanan yahudi, commentary, yang diterbitkan olehamerican jewish committee.murray friedman, the neoconservative revolution: jewish intellectuals and the shaping of public policy (cambridge university press, 2005)benjamin balint, running commentary: the contentious magazine that transformed the jewish left into the neoconservative right (publicaffairs, 2010) mereka menolak aliran kiri baru dan merintis aliran neokonservatisme.gal beckerman, in "the neoconservatism persuasion", the forward, 6 january 2006.
c. bradley thompson, dosen clemson university, mengklaim bahwa sebagian besar neokonservatif ternama bergantung pada pemikiran leo strauss (18991973),
meski strauss sendiri tidak mendukung penafsiran kaum neokonservatif.
publikasi dan lembaga neokonservatif
foundation for defense of democracies
henry jackson societyk. dodds, k. and s.
elden, "thinking ahead: david cameron, the henry jackson society and britishneoconservatism," british journal of politics and international relations (2008), 10(3): 34763.
jewish institute for national security affairs
project for the new american century
american enterprise institute
front page magazine
the public interest
the weekly standard
the washington free beacon
arin, kubilay yado: think tanks, the brain trusts of us foreign policy.
wiesbaden: vs springer 2013.
balint, benjamin v. running commentary: the contentious magazine that transformed the jewish left into the neoconservative right (2010)
the neoconservative mind.
isbn 1-56639-019-2, n attack from the left
ehrman, john. the rise of neoconservatism: intellectual and foreign affairs 1945  1994, yale university press, 2005, isbn 0-300-06870-0, friendly analysis
eisendrath, craig r. and melvin a. goodman.
bush league diplomacy: how the neoconservatives are putting the world at risk (prometheus books, 2004), isbn 1-59102-176-6.
the neoconservative revolution: jewish intellectuals and the shaping of public policy.
cambridge university press, 2006.
grandin, greg."empire's workshop: latin america, the united states, and the rise of the new imperialism."
metropolitan books henry holt &
company, 2006.isbn 978-0-8050-8323-1
they knew they were right: the rise of the neocons, doubleday (2008) isbn 0-385-51181-7
"5 myths about those nefarious neocons," washington post, 10 feb. 2008
" the neoconservative persuasion".
" how neoconservatives conquered washington", salon, 9 april 2003.
neoconservatism: the biography of a movement (harvard u.p. 2010), translated from the french
" neoconservatism: key figures",the christian science monitor.
steigerwald, bill. " so, what is a 'neocon'?"
" nailing the neocon myth".
the times (london)
selden, zachary, " neoconservatives and the american mainstream".
selden is director of the defence and security committee of the nato parliamentary assembly.
" after neoconservatism".
archived copy of original new york times article.
also available in .pdf
thompson, bradley c. (with yaron brook).
an obituary for an idea.
boulder/london: paradigm publishers, 2010.
kristol confesses: neoconservatism is not conservative, by samuel francis
paul gottfried and claes ryn on leo strauss, by kevin macdonald
the power of nightmares, bbc.
booknotes interview with irving kristol on neoconservatism: the autobiography of an idea, 24 september 1995.