American Empire Project
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–19...
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George W. Bush
George W. Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States of America from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H.W. Bush, he was born in New Have...
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Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant and policy advisor.[1] He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until Roves resignation on August 31, 2007. H...
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after...
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (b.1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of t...
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Ronald Reagan
Former actor and the 40th President of the United States. He served two terms from 1981 till 1989. Reagan is mostly known for his staunch opposition towards communism. He dubbed the term "Evil empire"Before he became president he also was the governor of ...
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David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM PC (1863 - 1945) was a British Liberal politician and statesman. His most important role came as Prime Minister during the First World War and immediately after. He led the Wartime Coalition Governme...
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Walter Lippmann
An American public intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War. Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column, "Today and...
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. In his first term, Wilson successfully pushed a legislative agenda that included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayt...
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George Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1859 - 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was...
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Robert Mcnamara
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in esc...
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Edward Bernays
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Saddam Hussein
Sadam Hussein was an Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War; born in 1937, deposed in 2003 after the US-led invasion of Iraq, executed in 2006 after conviction for crimes against humanity....
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John Kerry
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Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle ...
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L. Paul Bremer
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John Negroponte
John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is a British-born American diplomat. He is currently a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served ...
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Charles Glass
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Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of t...
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Kate Zernike
Kate Zernike is a national correspondent for The New York Times, where she has been since 2000, covering education, criminal justice, Hurricane Katrina and national elections; she was previously a reporter at The Boston Globe. She is the author of Boiling...
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Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek Int...
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian Independence Movement under the tutelage of Maha...
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Zellig Harris
Zellig Sabbettai Harris (October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was a renowned American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis an...
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Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, mais conhecido como Lula (Caetés, 27 de outubro de 1945), é um político, ex-sindicalista e ex-metalúrgico brasileiro. Foi o trigésimo quinto presidente da República Federativa do Brasil, cargo que exerceu de 1º de janeiro de 200...
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Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communis...
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Adolf Hitler
An Austrian-born German politician. Born 1889, died 1945. The leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at th...
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over th...
