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Can Washington’s National Security Bureaucracy Work?

Kirsten Gilbert — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/04/2009 - 12:15pm

After introductory remarks by American Strategy Program Director Steve Clemons, James R. Locher III -- President & CEO of the Project on National Security Reform, and lead author of Turning Ideas into Action -- laid out the many issues handicapping the national security bureaucracy. Describing the Departments as strong and the integrating mechanisms chronically weak, Locher portrayed the National Security Adviser as the head of an enormous force with almost no independent power, lacking even

Obama's World Outreach Teetering | Asia Times

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Obama's Outreach to Muslim World Teetering | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:33:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

The New Prize

Kirsten Gilbert — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:45:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/29/2009 - 12:15pm

Please join New America for a conversation with Daniel Yergin about his book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. * This event will be webcast LIVE on both this page and the The Washington Note*

Afghanistan Haunted By Ghost Of Vietnam | WIBW

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:55:00 -0400

Steve Clemons of the nonpartisan New America Foundation said one of the factors in the Soviet-Afghan War -- which pitted the Soviet-backed Democratic ...

Detecting IEDs a Daunting Challenge for US Military | CNN

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:06:00 -0400

They do have a deeply felt antagonism of anyone trying to control them or occupy their government," said Steve Clemons, an expert on Afghanistan for the ...

POSTPONED-The Rise of the Muslim Middle Class

Kirsten Gilbert — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/27/2009 - 12:30pm

This event has been postponed until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience.

With Kerry In The Spotlight In Afghanistan, Where's Holbrooke? | NPR

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:07:00 -0400

There is some truth to that, according to Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, who has known Holbrooke for many years. ...

Envoy Holbrooke Missing from Afghan Talks | Washington Times

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:18:00 -0400

"Karzai doesn't trust or like Holbrooke. ...There is not much of a relationship there," said Steve Clemons, executive vice president at the New America Foundation who runs a popular foreign policy ...

The Jobs Deficit: The Challenge of Putting America Back to Work

Kirsten Gilbert — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:30:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/20/2009 - 9:00am

More than one in six working Americans is now unemployed or underemployed, with more job losses yet to come. At this Oct. 20 event, some of America's leading policymakers and economic thinkers gathered to discuss how public policy should respond to this unprecedented unemployment crisis.

Japan | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:53:00 -0400

... modernized and will be healthier and even stronger over the long term for it," Steve Clemons of US think tank New America Foundation said in a recent ...

Obama/Nobel | Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:19:00 -0400

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Will Hatoyama's Japan Be A Responsible Stakeholder Nation?

Kirsten Gilbert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:45:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/12/2009 - 12:15pm

Can the War in Afghanistan Still Be Won? | Newsweek

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:01:00 -0400

Arguing against the motion were Steve Coll, CEO of the New America Foundation; retired US armylt. Col. John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American ...

Cuba | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:45:00 -0400

Steve Clemons, New America's foreign-policy chief and the editor of The Washington Note, organized the event and has been building a left-right coalition of ...

Preventing Medicare and Social Security from Going Broke | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:35:00 -0400

Maya MacGuineas says the recession has moved the day of reckoning for these entitlement programs much closer. Today's topic: At what point in the economic ...

Obama's 'Unclenched Fist' Won the Prize

Erin Drankoski — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0400

Cynics will say that Oslo was jealous that Copenhagen, Denmark, scored a visit from President Obama, and giving him a Nobel was the only way to get him to Norway.

But the Nobel Committee's decision to make Obama the only sitting U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson to receive the Nobel Peace Prize shows the committee's clear-headed assessment that Obama's "unclenched fist" approach to dealing with the world's most thuggish leaders has had a constructive, systemic impact on the world's expectations of itself.

Is Mitchell the Man for the Job?

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:19:00 -0400

Senator George Mitchell is one of America's most impressive public servants.

He has served the state of Maine well, chaired any number of commissions for various presidents since his senate retirement and patiently plodded through years of work and negotiations with historically opposed foes in the Northern Ireland peace process and achieved peace.

However, he may not be the right envoy to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Afghanistan and Pakistan Debate | Intelligence Squared

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:13:00 -0400

The overview: America cannot and will not succeed in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

For the motion: Steven Clemons, Director of New America Foundation's American Strategy Program

Against the motion: Steve Coll, President of the New America Foundation

Read on for more about this debate ... Orginial Video (available soon)

Motley Crew | Newsweek

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:36:00 -0400

... and what we are supposed to be doing," Steven Clemons, director of the nonpartisan think tank American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. ...