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Samantha Power: The Voice Behind Obama's Libya Action | McClatchy Newspapers

March 25, 2011

"She gives all the credit to Barack Obama; she says he's the one who is calling the shots and wants the rigorous decision-making process," said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, a research center headquartered in Washington. ...

Mutual Public Outreach Can Help Pakistan, U.S. Have Candid Dialogue for Trustful Ties | The Associated Press of Pakistan

March 25, 2011

The discussion - moderated by New America Foundation President, Steve Clemons and attended by Alex Evans, a British diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan - touched on the power of ...

Now Is the Time To Talk to the Taliban | Middle East Online

March 24, 2011

Lute was at the dinner, organized by Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, to lend his support to the release of a new report, “Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace,” the result of a months-long study by a task force from the Century Foundation. ...

In Search of the 'Obama Doctrine' | Politico

March 23, 2011

“There's just no quick way to define it,” said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, who is generally supportive of the president's foreign policy. “He's genuinely committed to human rights but in actualizing those principles he's fundamentally ...

LIVE WEBCAST: Radio in Pakistan

March 22, 2011

TODAY: New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons will moderate a conversation with Murtaza Solangi, Director General of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, on the importance of radio to education, grassroots empowerment, and countering extremist voices.

Mr. Solangi heads up the oldest and largest radio network in Pakistan with over 88 stations across the country. He will be joined in the discussion by U.S. Undersecretary Judith McHale, and Alex Evans, senior advisor, to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

Global Crises Overshadow Obama's 2011 Agenda | USA TODAY

March 22, 2011

"I didn't think anything could take the cameras off the Middle East, and then Japan has a triple disaster" of an earthquake and tsunami that damaged nuclear plants, says Steven Clemons of the centrist New America Foundation. ...

Endgame in Libya Still Unidentified After Rain of Missiles on Qaddafi Forces | The National (UAE)

March 21, 2011

Steven Clemons, a senior fellow with the Washington-based New America Foundation, suggested that perhaps the only hope for swift resolution if a stalemate developed as a result of a ceasefire, would involve one of Col Qaddafi's inner circle turning ...

West Will Be Losers If Gaddafi Holds On | The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

March 21, 2011

Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, spoke bluntly to The New York Times - "Barack Obama told Gaddafi to go. If Gaddafi doesn't go, America will look diminished in the eyes of the world." You're the only person reading this ...

How the U.S. Goes to War | MSNBC

March 21, 2011

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Steve Clemons, founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and publisher of The Washington Note, talks with Rachel Maddow about the America that decides to go to war, skipping Congressional approval.

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Analysts: A Divided Libya Would Be a Failure | CBS

March 21, 2011

... Steven Clemons of the New American Foundation echoed that sentiment, telling the New York Times that "Barack Obama told Qaddafi to go; if Qaddafi doesn't go, America will look diminished in the eyes of the world." The New York Times. ...

Stated or Not, a Clear Target in Libya | The New York Times

March 20, 2011

“Barack Obama told Qaddafi to go; if Qaddafi doesn't go, America will look diminished in the eyes of the world,” said Steven Clemons, senior fellow at the New American Foundation. Stephen J. Hadley, a former national security adviser to President ...

Obama Finally Has His Own War | Spiegel International

March 19, 2011

"In the case of Libya, they just threw out their playbook," Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation told Foreign Policy. "The fact that Obama pivoted on a dime shows that the White House is flying without a strategy." It also shows that the old ...

Libyan Leader Declares Ceasefire: What Next? | KPCC - Southern California

March 18, 2011


Libya expert, Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation joins us to analyse this latest development. ...

Military Intervention In Libya May Already Be Irrelevant | Inter Press Service

March 16, 2011

... systems that would remind and brand this revolution as delivered by Western forces," argued Steve Clemons, foreign policy analyst for the New America Foundation who is against direct military action, in his blog 'The Washington Note' on Monday. ...

Libya Intervention 'Brings Huge Risks'

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March 14, 2011 |

In Libya, a lethally unbalanced leader has decided not to reform his government or heed the calls of his public that he should have been term-limited out long ago, but instead has bombed, machine-gunned, and rolled tanks out against his own citizens.

A deadly, serious struggle is under way in Libya and throughout much of the Middle East and North Africa between ageing authoritarian regimes and their citizens who have had enough of institutionalised human degradation.

Earthquake and Nuclear Crisis Reveal Broader Troubles in Japan Policy | WBEZ - Chicago

March 14, 2011


As Japan struggles to come to grips with the scope and nature of the devastating earthquake and tsunami, its response will be shaped by more structural, fundamental aspects of its society and population. That's according to Steve Clemons, senior fellow and director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. ...

Steven Clemons on Japan, Libya | CNN

March 13, 2011

Steven Clemons appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS to speak about the tragedy in Japan and the ongoing uprising in Libya.

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Just Because Michelle Wears McQueen … Doesn'T Mean Washington Is Having Any Fun | Newsweek

March 13, 2011

“This town is going tribal,” says Steve Clemons, a senior fellow with the New America Foundation who's known for his carefully constructed dinner parties. More fundamentally, say social types, it increasingly seems as though Washington has forgotten ...

Libya: What Now for U.S. Involvement? | KPCC - Southern California

March 7, 2011


In Libya Monday, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's warplanes were hitting rebel positions around a key oil port. Demonstrators say they need outside help if they're going to succeed in overthrowing Gadhafi. What does this mean for U.S involvement? Should the U.S. impose a no fly zone? Foreign policy expert Steve Clemons joins us from the New America Foundation.

Obama Reluctant To Intervene in Libya | McClathcy Newspapers

March 6, 2011

It can't do too little, but it can't do too much," said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, consulted by the White House on the uprisings. The administration also is deeply concerned that the longer the upheaval persists, the greater the ...

Counting the Cost of War | The New American

March 3, 2011

Wandering off the conservative reservation, Norquist raised the issue a few weeks back at a dinner hosted by Steve Clemmons, director of the American Strategy Program of the left-of-center New America Foundation. As described by W. James Antle III in ...

White House Pressed To Intervene in Libya | McClatchy Newspapers

March 2, 2011

It can't do too little, but it can't do too much," said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, one of several outside experts consulted by the White House on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East. The administration also is deeply concerned that ...

Libyan No-Fly Zone Would Be Risky, Provocative | CNN

March 2, 2011

"There would be happiness by some that the US and Europe are standing by them," said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation. "But a lot more will be skeptical. There is an institutional skepticism by ...

Smelling Salts for China's Jasmine Dream | Asia Times

February 25, 2011

Steve Clemons wrote: What is interesting is that Saif Gaddafi is no idiot. He has seen for some time that his father's government was brittle and fragile - and that a spark could come along and unleash internal rage against those holding incumbent ...

Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight Over Libya | Inter Press Service

February 25, 2011

... "They want to keep open the idea that there's a mix of capabilities they can deploy – whether it's a no-fly zone, freezing foreign assets of Gaddafi's family, doing something to prevent the transport of mercenaries (hired by Gaddafi) to Libya, targeting sanctions against some of his supporters to persuade them to abandon him," said Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, who took part in a meeting of independent foreign policy analysts, including Abrams, with senior National Security Council staff at the White House Thursday. ...

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