Which ideas should guide US Foreign Policy? Holding fundamentalist policy paradigms to account

In this article, we trace the failure of neoconservative and neoliberal thinkers to
revise positions in light of changing US fortunes to highlight the need to evaluate paradigmatic contributions to US Foreign Policy. Drawing on the philosophy
of science literature, we suggest that, in order for approaches to be taken seriously, their proponents ought to present means of their own falsifcation. We argue
that the obstinacy of paradigms is not merely of academic importance, since such
approaches may contribute to the very crises they claim to resolve. This should give
policy makers reasons to reject them as fundamentalist.