Empire?
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - American Empire
The website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation maintains a section about the debate on the "American Empire," with a broad overview of other sources that publish on "Empire."
This gallery depicts pictures of the Shah of Iran and US Presidents from 1943 until 1977. It contains photos and speeches of the Shah with the US Presidents and their families in different occasions both in the US and in Iran. (Presidential Libraries Collection)
The Project on Defense Alternatives
The Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) provides hundreds of links, documents and books on US defense strategy, military capabilities and the war on terrorism. PDA also provides resources on US history and territorial expansion, asking if the most powerful nation in the world is an empire.
Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy
Human Rights Watch maintains an up-to-date listing of states exercising repressive policy measures against certain less advantaged groups, such as political opponents, separatists, religious groups, refugees and asylum-seekers. Since the 9/11 attacks governments have employed and executed these measures in the name of the "war on terrorism." Naming groups seen as a threat – political, economic or other – as being "terrorist" is perceived by states as an effective method of avoiding criticism from human rights organizations.
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
A research and educational organization that serves as a forum on ethics and international policy. The Council's project on Empire and Democracy focuses on multilateral ways to promote democracy.
The Project for the New American Century
A think-tank established in 1997 by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, among others, that seeks to promote US global leadership by increasing defense spending and adopting a "foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad."
The National Security Archive
The National Security Archive functions both as a non governmental, non-profit institution, a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified US documents, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.
