Steven Clemons

Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation

Steven Clemons is director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America’s interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about a kind of world order best suited to America’s democratic way of life.

Clemons is a senior fellow at New America, and previously served as executive vice president. Publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note, he is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, DC. He sits on the boards of the Maryland and the Clarke Center at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown. Clemons is also a well-known political blogger for The Washington Note, and his writing has also appeared on blogs for The Huffington Post and Daily Kos.