The newly participatory nature of the Internet – sometimes called ‘Web 2.0’ – has revolutionized political conversation across the nation. Presidential campaigns now invite supporters to assemble and vote for television ads, money pours in through small-dollar donations, and the rise of blogging has strengthened the voice of ordinary Americans. However, given Washington’s sometimes hidebound culture, the impact of these developments on the policy process remains unclear. To what degree does the blogosphere impact debates over foreign policy? How will Web 2.0 evolve inside the Beltway? To discuss these issues and more, please join Steven Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.
The discussion will be held from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 17th. To attend, please register by responding to events@ypfp.org with your name and affiliation.
Steven Clemons directs 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 the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of life. He is also a Senior Fellow at New America, and previously served as Executive Vice President.
Publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note, Mr. Clemons is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, D.C. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center.
Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and co-founded with Chalmers Johnson the Japan Policy Research Institute, of which he is still Director. He is a Member of the Board of the Clarke Center at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pa., as well as an Advisory Board Member of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. He is also a Board Member of the Global Policy Innovations Program at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and a member of the board of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund.