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It's likely a stretch to call John Bolton a neoconservative, imperialist, or even a colonialist or globalist. It's true that John Bolton favors foreign intervention, at least a lot more so than most conservatives, but that is just the only issue where he agrees with neocons.
For instance, he strongly supports U.S. sovereignty and is against efforts by international organizations to take away or redefine sovereignty.
These articles below show quite obviously that he's more of a nationalist than a globalist (in fact, in the 2000 article, he rails against globalism by name): here and here Also, Bolton is vehemently opposed to the EU, here, here, here and he supported Brexit. Globalists think that John Bolton is not one of them, see here
Because of all this, I believe that John Bolton is a nationalist conservative who displays that nationalism in a more interventionist type of way than the majority of populist-nationalists. Moreover, if you look at his career, Bolton mentored Clarence Thomas, campaigned for Barry Goldwater, involved himself with the NRA, and wrote a forward for a book by Pam Geller and Robert Spencer. This resume seems to show that he's "a traditional conservative who is merely more interventionist than paleo-cons"
John Bolton also was against US involvement in Bosnia
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