noun. A political philosophy developed in the 1970s and 1980s, advocating the active use of government power in pursuit of conservative domestic and foreign policies.

noun. A right wing political movement that opposes liberalism in political, economic and social fields.

noun. an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s)

"The term neoconservatism was created by the socialist writer Michael Harrington in the early 1970s."

neocon  neoconservative  

conservatism  conservativism