steven c. clemons
Greetings from Steve Clemons and welcome to my website. During the days, I serve as Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation and, in my spare time, serve as Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. I’ve also been encouraged by my great friend, Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com to start my own blog. So, connected here you will find thewashingtonnote.com, where I more regularly comment on public policy debates that deserve attention. I hope you enjoy the articles and other items posted here. The most recent pieces I have published deal with the politics of offshoring as well as a more enlightened policy of returning visa fees to developing country applicants if we refuse them entry to the United States. The Department of State has not published visa application and rejection rate statistics since 2001, so I have published the FY1999-FY2003 data here (click here). The interest in these rates has been enormous. Check out this good UPI article by Thom Rose on the subject. Can you imagine shelling out a hundred bucks, or more, to travel to China, getting rejected, and not getting your money back? Geez… Yes, these websites and blogging activities are expensive – and some of you have asked if you can donate. The answer, finally, is SURE. I have posted a link below to handle donations – and you can always purchase your Amazon books through the link below (any books or other items) and Amazon will make a donation to the site. All the best, STEVE CLEMONS FYI! USA Today 27 February 2004 “The U.S. has become a high anxiety country. Whether it’s WMDs, National Guard Service or fiscal dishonesty, Bush is failing to create a lower fear, higher-trust society – which will hurt him at the polls in November.” Steven Clemons Executive Vice President New America Foundation Australian Financial Review Comments on India’s Economy Listen to Steve Clemons on National Public Radio KCRW’s To the Point with Warren Olney. On October 23^rd, 2003, listen with Real Player to “Donors Conference in Madrid: US Passes Hat for Iraq;” and on February 14^th, 2003, listen to “Is Washington in Unilateral Overdrive?” Also on February 4^th edition of Warren Olney’s To the Point, “Bush Links War on Terror to ‘Axis of Evil’” 24 February 2004 The executive vice-president of the New America Foundation, Steven Clemons, says India has to open up other parts of its economy if it wants to win support for outsourcing. “Do that and you get a lot more leverage in the debates you’re going to have,” he says David Crowe Australian Financial Review Chicago Tribune Comments on Offshoring Politics 8 February 2004 The study (McKinsey) also relies on an assumption that U.S. workers who lose their jobs eventually find productive new ones. The key word is eventually, said Steven Clemons, a conference speaker and executive vice president of the New America Foundation think tank. But there can be a long period of pain, as evidenced by the large number of people whose unemployment benefits are running out before they find a new job. Michael Oneal Chicago Tribune	most recent articles · The G-8 Summit: Benefits of Parading with Bush June 21^st, 2004, Daily Yomiuri and June 22^nd, Korea Herald · Where Did the Protesters Go? April 16th, 2004, Outside View Commentary, UPI · Land of the Free? March 31^th, 2004, New York Times · Offshoring is Not Just Pro-Con Debate March 11^th, 2004, Christian Science Monitor · Exchange Rate Politics in Boca Raton Guarantee Cynical Status Quo Prevails February 16^th, 2004, Daily Yomiuri · Nationalism in Japan: Old News or New Worry? December 9^th, 2004, Daily Yomiuri and December 10^th, Korea Herald · Thought Control: Think Tanks for Sale November 19^th, 2003, www.tompaine.com (New York Times Op-AD) · The Day the World Changed – For the Worse September 11, 2003, South China Morning Post · The Enronization of the Bush Administration August, 16, 2003, Japan Times · Sharing, Alaska Style April 9th, 2003, New York Times · Is Japan's 21st Century Role to be U.S. Satellite in Asia? March 22nd, 2003, Daily Yomiuri · Bush as Japan’s Arthur Andersen, March 1^st, 2002, Taipei Times · Get Market Forces on the Side of Reform – January 23^rd, 2002, Japan Times · U.S. Policy Crucial to Stability -- November 3rd, 2001, Japan Times · U.S. Role in Japan's Amnesia -- October 25th, 2001, Far Eastern Economic Review · Blowback from Bin Laden -- October 3rd, 2001, NRC Handelsblad · American Triumphalism and the Conditions that Led to September 11th (in English) (French) -- October 1st, 2001, Le Monde Diplomatique · Recovering Japan's Wartime Past -- and Ours -- September 4th, 2001, New York Times list of articles Steven Clemons Bio Steven Clemons Official Photo Articles & Transcripts Deep Creek Lake Information Click HERE to Ask to Be Added to www.steveclemons.com Listserve recommended sites coalition for a realistic foreign policy japan policy research institute new america foundation talkingpointsmemo washington monthly
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