Neoconservatism (n.) is an ideology which, on the international scene, organizes everything around the need to resist the Soviet design and the state of Israel is regarded as an especially important Western commitment.
Neoconservatism (n.) is really a mentality, a mentality of refined pessimism about politics and rancid pessimism about human nature.
Neoconservatism (n.) is looking at its acolytes, a group of New York Jewish intellectuals who decided that duty, honor, and country were superior, morally and mentally, to the bleeding-heart allegiances of their boy and girlhoods.
Neoconservatism (n.) is, according to its critics, the upper crust who just might have set out to do good, but there's no question that they ended up doing well.
Neoconservatism (n.) is a faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East. Insofar as this is the case, it can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Neoconservatism (n.) is contrasted with neoliberalism in that neoconservatism could occur in any country while neoliberalism could, really, only occur in a country like America, which combines abundance with angst and has a vast population of overqualified graduate students, some of whom wish they had, after all, served in Vietnam.