About a year ago, I wrote up what I've found out about the
Henry Jackson Society - which seemed to be shaping up as a possible successor to the PNAC, judging by its 'international patrons'. It seems to have stayed more as a discussion group, though it did publish a book. But part of my interest derived from the "Committee for a Strong Europe", which had previously been talked about by a PNAC member as a successor to that organisation - but had then failed to materialise, either on the web, or anywhere apart from the various blogs speculating about it.
Well, now it's turned up on the web -
http://www.strongeurope.org / . It has various articles on it, reprinted from things like The Weekly Standard, mostly from 2005 - but looking at the Google caches, it seems to have sprung into existence in mid-February 2007 (though the domain name was registered in Jan 2005 - seemingly based in Madrid).
Some of the articles are headed "Committee for a Strong Europe"
http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/9.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/10.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/11.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/12.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/14.pdf but some are headed "The Madrid Initiative", although that name doesn't seem to mean anything (it was occasionally used as a name for the anti-WMD "
Proliferation Security Initiative", in which several countries (the usual suspects - USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany and more) claimed the right to stop and search any ship on the high seas, if it was suspected of carrying WMD-related material. This seems to have been aimed at North Korea).
http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/1.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/4.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/5.pdf http://www.strongeurope.org/pdf/6.pdf Ironically, its "Statement of Principles" is blank (as is its 'Manifesto'). It also interestingly reprints an article by Frank Gaffney called "
Our Saudi Enemies" - not standard PNAC stuff.
Anyway, this is as much a way of getting their pages indexed on Google, by linking to them, as anything. But I do wonder who's behind the site, this time.
