Conference “Political Polarization in the United States and the Presidential Elections”

On August 22, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), in partnership with its sister institution in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), will convene the conference "Political Polarization in the United States and the Presidential Elections," with Senior Researcher of the New America Foundation and Founder of the institution”s American Strategy Program, Steve Clemons. The conference will begin at 7:00
pm at FUNGLODE Headquarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Mr. Clemons will discuss the implications of the heightened polarization of US political cultural and how this phenomena could potentially play out during the 2012 US Presidential Elections, and the challenges facing both President Obama and Senator Romney.

The event is free and open to the public.

About Steve Clemons
Steve Clemons is the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He is currently a Senior Fellow at New America, of which he previously served as Executive Vice President, and remains actively involved in the direction of the American Strategy Program.

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. He has also been a part of the Center”s Advisory Committee on United States – Japan relations for the RAND Corporation. Previously, Mr. Clemons was the Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California (1987-1994).

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. 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 on the advisory board of the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association.

Mr. Clemons writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in many of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world.

In 1993, Mr. Clemons served as Technical Advisor for the film Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. Mr. Clemons
has also served as the host of news programs and played a role in the film State of Play, starring Ben Affleck.

Related links:
asp.newamerica.net
www.thewashingtonnote.com