Hello and welcome to all politically active people in Vienna. The US Elections for the President of the United Stated have generated a great deal of enthusiasm and Democrats Abroad Austria is screening all of the debates at Pickwick's Café (1st district, Marc Aurelstr. 10). 

For the Vice-Presidential debate, Friday, 3 October, 6pm, we are pleased to announce that Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program, New America Foundation, and Publisher of the political blog The Washington Note, will speak prior to the screening about his insights in this exciting election.  Mr. Clemons will begin speaking at 6:00 PM, followed by the screening of the Vice-Presidential debate.

Further information about Steve Clemons:

Steve 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.

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, journal, and magazines around the world.