Policy Report
April 2002

U.S. Foreign Policy—
Attention, Right Face, Forward March

By Tom Barry and Jim Lobe

right2002.pdf (102 kb)

• Foreign Policy--Then and Now
• Dimensions and Extensions of U.S. Supremacy
• Bringing It All Together
  
  
• Box 1: The Project for the New American Century Signatories of 1997 Statement of Principles
• Box 2: Americans for Victory Over Terrorism

The Project for the New American Century
Signatories of 1997 Statement of Principles

Elliott Abrams

• National Security Council Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations
• Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and for Inter-American Affairs in Reagan administration

Gary Bauer

• 1999-2000: Republican presidential candidate
• 1989-99: Founder and President, Family Research Council
• Director, White House Office of Policy Development in Reagan administration

William J. Bennett

• Codirector, Empower America; Chairman, Americans for Victory Over Terrorism
• Distinguished Fellow, Heritage Foundation
• Director, White House Office of Drug Control Policy in Bush Sr. administration
• Secretary of Education in Reagan administration

Jeb Bush

• Governor, State of Florida

Richard B. Cheney

• Vice President to George W. Bush
• 1989-Jan. 1993: Secretary of Defense
• 1975-77: White House Chief of Staff

Eliot A. Cohen

• Professor and Director of Strategic Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
• Policy planning staff of the Department of Defense in Bush Sr. administration

Midge Decter

• Board of Trustees of the Heritage Foundation
• Executive Director of the Committee for a Free World in Reagan administration
• Founder of Coalition for a Democratic Majority in 1970s

Paula Dobriansky

• Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
• Office of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council in Reagan administration

Steve Forbes

• President and CEO of Forbes magazine
• 1996 and 2000: Campaigned for Republican presidential nomination

Aaron Friedberg

• Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress
• Consultant to the National Security Council in Reagan administration

Francis Fukuyama

• Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• State Department Policy Planning Staff in Bush Sr. administration
• Author: The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

Frank Gaffney

• CEO of Center for Security Policy
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in Reagan administration

Fred C. Ikle

• Senior scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in Reagan administration
• 1973-77: Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Nixon and Ford administrations

Donald Kagan

• Professor of History and Classics, Yale University

Zalmay Khalilzad

• U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan
• Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia, and other Regional Issues, National Security Council
• Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Planning in Bush Sr. administration
• State Department Policy Planning Staff in Reagan administration

I. Lewis Libby

• Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
• Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
• 1998: Legal Adviser to the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the Peoples' Republic of China, commonly known as the "Cox Committee"
• 1989-93: Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

Norman Podhoretz

• Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
• 1960-95: Editor in Chief, Commentary magazine

Dan Quayle

• 1989-93: U.S. Vice President
• 1980-89: U.S. Senator from Indiana

Peter W. Rodman

• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• State Department Policy Planning Staff in Reagan administration

Stephen P. Rosen

• Director, Olin Institute of Strategic Studies at Harvard University and Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard

Henry S. Rowen

• Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Director, Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Ford and Bush Sr. administrations

Donald Rumsfeld

• Secretary of Defense
• 1998-99: Chairman of the U.S. Government Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

Vin Weber

• Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Endowment for Democracy
• Vice Chairman of Empower America
• 1981-93: U.S. House of Representatives member from Minnesota

George Weigel

• John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Former President, Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Author: Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II (1997)

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz

• Deputy Secretary of Defense
• 1994-2001: Dean of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in Bush Sr. administration
• U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, and Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State in Reagan administration

Other PNAC Principals

Bruce P. Jackson

• Project Director, Project for the New American Century
• Member of Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy
• Vice President, Strategy and Planning, Corporate Strategic Development for the Lockheed Martin Corporation
• 2000: Chairman for Republican Party platform's subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Policy
• 1997-99: Director, Global Development for Lockheed Martin Corporation

Reuel Marc Gerecht

• Director of the Middle East Initiative, Project for the New American Century
• Resident Fellow and Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• 1985-94: Middle Eastern Specialist, Central Intelligence Agency

Robert Kagan

• Cofounder and Project Director, Project for the New American Century
• Contributing editor at The Weekly Standard
• Department of State: Deputy for Policy, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and principal speechwriter for Secretary of State in Reagan administration

Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Senior Fellow, Scholar, and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
• Codirector of Empower America
• 1981-85: U.S. Representative to the United Nations

William Kristol

• Cofounder and Chairman of the Project for the New American Century
• Editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard
• Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle
• Chief of Staff to Secretary of Education William Bennett in Reagan administration

Richard Perle

• Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Chairman, Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in Reagan administration

R. James Woolsey

• Partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC
• 1999-2000: member of National Commission on Terrorism
• 1998: Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission)
• 1993-95: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Undersecretary of the Navy in Carter administration