Steven Clemons is a Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, where he previously served as Executive Vice President. He is also publisher of the popular political blog, TheWashingtonNote.com. A specialist in U.S.-Asia policy and U.S. foreign policy matters as well as broad international economic and security affairs, Steve Clemons joined New America in May 1999 after serving as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute. Mr. Clemons has also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Jeff Bingaman and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center in Washington. In Los Angeles, Clemons served for seven years as the Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California and co-founded the Japan Policy Research Institute.


Steve Clemons writes frequently on foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in most of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world. Clemons serves on the Board of Directors of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund, the Starr Center for the American Experience at Washington College, and on the Clark Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College.

Blog Entries by Steve Clemons

To All Those Waiting for the Obama Team Phone Call

7 Comments | Posted December 3, 2008 | 04:28 PM (EST)


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This blog post has not been written by Steven Clemons or any member of Huffington Post or The Washington Note team. It is written by someone who really does deserve a...

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Uncomfortable Thanksgiving: Obama, Prop 8, and My Marriage

142 Comments | Posted November 27, 2008 | 08:42 AM (EST)


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I got married to my partner of 17 years in San Francisco on August 18th of this year. We did so under the beautiful dome of San Francisco's magnificent City Hall -- and...

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Colin Powell for Middle East Envoy -- Dennis Ross for US Ambassador to Israel?

71 Comments | Posted November 25, 2008 | 09:34 AM (EST)


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Recently, Politico issued a roster of top policy and political hands who would be in line for key positions in an Obama government.

At the time, I thought it very odd that Clinton Middle East coordinator...

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Scoop: McCain and Obama Camps Coordinated on Building Staff Rosters for Next Government

325 Comments | Posted November 23, 2008 | 12:36 PM (EST)


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A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note and Huffington Post that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of...

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What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

145 Comments | Posted November 12, 2008 | 10:23 AM (EST)


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Barack Obama should keep his smile and not adopt the scowl that Vice President Richard Cheney often deployed to tenderize his victims, but he should pay careful attention to the way that Cheney animated hundreds...

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Bailouts, Bubbles, Boils, and Trouble

9 Comments | Posted November 10, 2008 | 08:04 AM (EST)


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Today, my colleagues at the New America Foundation are having a half day forum titled "Recipes for Recovery: From Washington to Wall Street" at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. It's free, open to the...

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Remove Lieberman from all Domestic Security and National Security Roles

108 Comments | Posted November 9, 2008 | 11:38 AM (EST)


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Joe Lieberman wants to keep his status and committees and caucus with the Democrats. He has been a fear-monger and someone who has promoted a dangerous, reckless false choice between American relations with Israel and...

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

262 Comments | Posted November 8, 2008 | 07:29 AM (EST)


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I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

I realize that there are a lot of players behind the scenes and those who walked out on stage...

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Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?

31 Comments | Posted November 6, 2008 | 09:44 AM (EST)


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There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. If so, he's pulling a "Donald Rumsfeld" who served as Secretary...

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Election Day Liveblog

1 Comments | Posted November 4, 2008 | 09:19 AM (EST)


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My Vote Today: Barack Obama and Joe Biden

11 Comments | Posted November 3, 2008 | 09:11 PM (EST)


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Despite the pleas of a number of my favorite (and even not so favorite) readers, I have kept quiet until now about who I planned to vote for.

My support for any candidate or party...

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Applause for Obama's Thoughtful Stand on Infrastructure Investment

5 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 10:26 AM (EST)


The New America Foundation's Sherle Schwenninger and industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Schwartz were out way ahead of the pack in calling for massive government commitment to infrastructure investment.

Now this...

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Obama's Team Needs to Drop Phobia Towards Arab-Americans and Muslims

136 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 08:39 AM (EST)


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A couple of well-placed insiders have told me that US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad is going to make a quick split after the November 4th election. Some think he is going to position...

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Waving Goodbye to Bill Kristol, Colin Powell "Might" Endorse Obama

143 Comments | Posted October 17, 2008 | 01:11 PM (EST)


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Politico's Mike Allen and others think that Colin Powell "may" endorse Barack Obama this weekend on Meet the Press.

Note the word "may." I agree with Mike Allen that Powell may take this action...

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Chuck Hagel Will Help Obama Find his "Inner Nixon"

31 Comments | Posted October 15, 2008 | 06:44 PM (EST)


hagel hand clemons.jpgOne of these days, I'm going to post a long roster of foreign policy speeches and other writing by Senator Chuck Hagel. I need to check in with Arianna Huffington about setting up a journal of record here for "Hagelism" since I...

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Lump in the Throat Memoir: Helene Cooper's Story of the Disintegration of Nation and Family

2 Comments | Posted October 5, 2008 | 05:52 PM (EST)


Helene Cooper The Washinton Note TWN.jpgThe House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood is one of the most positive but emotionally destabilizing and unusual personal memoirs I have read in many years.

It tells the coming of age story...

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Conservatives Against Sarah Palin: The List is Growing

24 Comments | Posted October 1, 2008 | 01:19 AM (EST)


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I wonder what George W. Bush really, really, really thinks about Sarah Palin...I can't imagine Laura Bush thinking much of her, but that's my own speculation.

There are more and more top line conservatives who...

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Surviving Nuclear Knife Edge to 100 Pinpricks: The Next U.S. Foreign Policy

2 Comments | Posted September 29, 2008 | 01:17 AM (EST)


Sunday in the Los Angeles Times, an excerpt ran of a new book that was partly sponsored by the New America Foundation/American Strategy Progam titled America and the World: Conversations on the Future of U.S. Foreign...

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Bush Does a 9/11 Replay in Asking for Unprecedented Powers and Unprecedented Budget

449 Comments | Posted September 24, 2008 | 09:40 PM (EST)


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Just after the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred, George W. Bush went before the nation and made the case that he needed unprecedented authority -- budgetary and military -- to take on the threats poised...

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A Lot of Israelis and a Lot of Saudis for Barack Obama?

5 Comments | Posted September 24, 2008 | 05:00 PM (EST)


Senator Jeff Bingaman's support group in New Mexico used to be called (and may still be) "A Lot of Folks for Jeff Bingaman." I always liked how unpretentious the name of his PAC was.

Well. . .I...

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