Founded 1903, and presently with 15,000 members.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
| Whit Ayres |
Government |
c. 1949 |
|
North Star Opinion Research |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Michael Barone |
Pundit |
19-Sep-1944 |
|
Almanac of American Politics |
| Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
| Doug Bereuter |
Politician |
6-Oct-1939 |
|
Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004 |
| James D. Bindenagel |
Diplomat |
30-Jun-1949 |
|
Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, 1999-2001 |
| Robert A. Bradtke |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Croatia |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
15-Jun-1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| Demetrios James Caraley |
Educator |
22-Jun-1932 |
|
President, Academy of Political Science |
| Joan Claybrook |
Activist |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
Public Citizen |
| Richard Cohen |
Columnist |
1941 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Charles Cook |
Publisher |
? |
|
Cook Political Report |
| John Patrick Crecine |
Educator |
22-Aug-1939 |
28-Apr-2008 |
President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94 |
| Tom Daschle |
Politician |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
US Senator from South Dakota, 1987-2005 |
| Jeffrey Davidow |
Diplomat |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001 |
| Bob Dole |
Politician |
22-Jul-1923 |
|
US Senator from Kansas, 1969-96 |
| Paul W. Douglas |
Business |
12-Sep-1926 |
18-Sep-2011 |
CEO of Freeport Minerals, 1975-81 |
| John P. East |
Politician |
5-May-1931 |
29-Jun-1986 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Vic Fazio |
Politician |
11-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-99 |
| Tom Foley |
Politician |
6-Mar-1929 |
18-Oct-2013 |
Speaker of the House, 1989-95 |
| Donald Fowler |
Government |
12-Sep-1935 |
|
DNC chairman, 1995-97 |
| Michael G. Franc |
Government |
c. 1957 |
|
Heritage Foundation |
| William E. Frenzel |
Politician |
31-Jul-1928 |
17-Nov-2014 |
Congressman from Minnesota, 1971-91 |
| Geoffrey Garrett |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
President of the Pacific Council |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Daniel Jonah Goldhagen |
Scholar |
30-Jun-1959 |
|
Hitler's Willing Executioners |
| Sebastian de Grazia |
Author |
11-Aug-1917 |
31-Dec-2000 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
| Lee H. Hamilton |
Politician |
20-Apr-1931 |
|
9/11 Commission vice chairman |
| Melissa Harris-Perry |
Author |
2-Oct-1973 |
|
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET |
| Ken Hechler |
Politician |
20-Sep-1914 |
|
Congressman from West Virginia, 1959-77 |
| Christopher Hill |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 2009-10 |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
| Al Hunt |
Journalist |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Wall Street Journal editor |
| Oscár Jászi |
Sociologist |
2-Mar-1875 |
13-Feb-1957 |
The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy |
| Robert Jervis |
Historian |
1940 |
|
The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy |
| Robert A. Katzmann |
Judge |
22-Apr-1953 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Robert O. Keohane |
Scholar |
3-Oct-1941 |
|
After Hegemony |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| David Loebsack |
Politician |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Congressman, Iowa 2nd |
| Dick Lugar |
Politician |
4-Apr-1932 |
|
US Senator from Indiana |
| Thomas E. Mann |
Government |
10-Sep-1944 |
|
Brookings Institution |
| Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
| George Meader |
Politician |
13-Sep-1907 |
15-Oct-1994 |
Congressman from Michigan, 1951-65 |
| Charles E. Merriam |
Scholar |
15-Nov-1874 |
8-Jan-1953 |
American Political Ideas |
| Richard M. Miles |
Diplomat |
8-Jan-1937 |
|
Former US Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria |
| Anne Norton |
Educator |
1954 |
|
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire |
| Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
| Norman Ornstein |
Author |
14-Oct-1948 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| Carole Pateman |
Scholar |
11-Dec-1940 |
|
The Disorder of Women |
| Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
| David Price |
Politician |
17-Aug-1940 |
|
Congressman, North Carolina 4th |
| Lucian W. Pye |
Scholar |
21-Oct-1921 |
5-Sep-2008 |
Sinologist |
| Cokie Roberts |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1943 |
|
ABC's This Week |
| Lars Schoultz |
Historian |
23-Aug-1942 |
|
Beneath the United States |
| Theda Skocpol |
Educator |
4-May-1947 |
|
Harvard sociologist, political scientist |
| Nicholas J. Spykman |
Geographer |
13-Oct-1893 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Godfather of Containment |
| Leo Strauss |
Philosopher |
20-Sep-1899 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Patron saint of Neoconservatism |
| Kenneth N. Waltz |
Scholar |
8-Jun-1924 |
12-May-2013 |
Man, the State, and War |
| Ernest J. Wilson III |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
| Woodrow Wilson |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1856 |
3-Feb-1924 |
28th US President, 1913-21 |
| Alan Wolfe |
Author |
10-Jun-1942 |
|
The Future of Liberalism |
