The New American Century

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• The history in general of United States imperialism
• The history of the foreign policy of the United States

A New American Century?

By Zia Mian, Foreign Policy in Focus, 4 May 2005. In 1997, a group of conservative American politicians, academics, and policy brokers announced “The Project for a New American Century.” The name and vision clearly echo Henry Luce's famous 1941 manifesto “The American Century” in Life magazine. According to Luce, there was a war that was waiting to be fought. It was not just World War II, but a much larger struggle.

The US Nuclear Option and the “War on Terrorism”

By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 14 May 2004. The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq are part of a broader military agenda, which was launched at the end of the Cold War. In September 2000, a few months before the accession of George W. Bush to the White House, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) published its blueprint for global domination under the title: “Rebuilding America's Defenses.”

US too weak to implement international agenda, says IISS

IRNA, 31 January 2007. Great power relations are in a state of flux due to the US not being strong enough to enforce the international agenda it seeks to impose at global level, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).