In the article, they argued that American conservatives were 'adrift' in the area of foreign policy, advocated a 'more elevated vision of America's international role,' and suggested that the United States' should adopt a stance of 'benevolent global hegemony.' In June 1997, Kristol and Kagan founded the PNAC in order to advance the goals they had first laid out in Foreign Affairs, echoing the article's statements and goals in PNAC's founding Statement of Principles. ĭuring the summer of 1996, Kristol and Kagan co-authored an article in Foreign Affairs titled 'Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy' - referring to the foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan. The Project for the New American Century developed from Kristol and Kagan's belief that the Republican Party lacked a 'compelling vision for American foreign policy,' which would allow Republican leaders to effectively criticize President Bill Clinton's foreign policy record. The Foreign Policy Initiative was dissolved in 2017. The Project for the New American Century ceased to function in 2006 it was replaced by a new think-tank named the Foreign Policy Initiative, co-founded by Kristol and Kagan in 2009. Bush administration has been exaggerated. Abelson have said PNAC's influence on the George W.

Academics such as Inderjeet Parmar, Phillip Hammond, and Donald E. Observers such as Irwin Stelzer and Dave Grondin have suggested that the PNAC played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, particularly in building support for the Iraq War. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. PNAC's stated goal was 'to promote American global leadership.' The organization stated that 'American leadership is good both for America and for the world,' and sought to build support for 'a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity.' It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The Project for the New American Century ( PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focused on United States foreign policy.

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