Cox & Stokes: US Foreign Policy 
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Project for the New American Century offers a forceful neo-conservative statement in favour of global US leadership for the twenty-first century. Focusing on defence and national security, power and US interests, it provides a blueprint for US empire, for shaping the century and the world in a way 'favourable to American principles and interests'.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
The National Security Archive, an independent research institute and library at George Washington University, is an outstanding repository of declassified documents pertaining to US national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies, and offers primary sources for investigations into representations constituting US identity and driving US foreign policy.
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Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) is a progressive think-tank whose aim is to make the US a more responsible global partner. FPIF argues that US security and world stability are best advanced through commitments to peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political, and social rights, advocating diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation.
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The Cato Institute, a libertarian, 'market-liberal' think-tank, promotes what it perceives to be 'traditional' US principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace in relation to US domestic and foreign policies.
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Human Rights Watch is an independent organisation dedicated to protecting human rights, preventing discrimination, upholding political freedom, and protecting people from inhumane conduct in wartime. Their US section, at www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa, constitutes US identity as both domestic and international human rights violator.
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