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Steve Clemons

Editor at Large, The National Interest
and Member of the Board of Directors, GLOBSEC US Foundation

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Steve Clemons is editor at large of The National Interest and has served as Editor at Large of The Hill, The Atlantic and Semafor as well as in senior editorial roles at National Journal and Quartz. He is also editor and publisher of the popular political blog, The Washington Note, and host of "The Bottom Line" which airs on the global network of Al Jazeera English. Clemons also Co-Chairs the US Initiative of GLOBSEC, one of Europe's most dynamic and important national and global security think tanks. Clemons serves on the Advisory Board of the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, and is Chairman & CEO of Widehall LLC, a strategic communications and events firm that translates ideas into high-traction impact. Clemons previously served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute as well as of the New America Foundation, and was founding Executive Director of the Nixon Center, later renamed the Center for the National Interest. He was also Senior Economic and International Affairs Advisor to US Senator Jeff Bingaman; and with Chalmers Johnson, founded the Japan Policy Research Institute.

Moderator

Steve Clemons’ Talk Show with Markus Ferber

Germany has taken decisions of historic weight in the past year: breaking the debt brake, committing to five percent of GDP on defence, and stepping forward as a driving force in European security. Markus Ferber, CSU member of the European Parliament since 1994 and Chairman of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, brings to this conversation three decades of experience at the heart of European and German politics. With the European project under strain and Ukraine's future still unresolved, he joins us to discuss what Germany's renewed ambition means for the continent and what Europe needs to rise to the moment.

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Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
10:00–10:15 CEST
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Steve Clemons’ Talk Show with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa

Ghana under President Mahama has made reparatory justice a central plank of its foreign policy, tabling a landmark UN resolution calling for formal recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity, with a decade of action to follow. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who drove that agenda from parliament before taking the foreign affairs portfolio in 2025, is one of Africa's most vocal advocates for rewriting the rules of international accountability. This is a conversation about what African diplomatic ambition looks like when it moves from rhetoric to resolution.

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Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
10:15–10:40 CEST
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Steve Clemons' Talk Show with Adm. Michael Rogers

Few people have sat closer to the intersection of intelligence, cyberwarfare, and geopolitical competition than Admiral Michael Rogers. As Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command from 2014 to 2018, he oversaw America's most sensitive digital operations at the precise moment cyber conflict moved from the margins of national security to its centre — a shift marked by Russian interference in the 2016 election, the rise of state-sponsored sabotage, and the quiet militarisation of the internet itself. A career naval officer who built his expertise in signals intelligence long before cyber became a mainstream concern, Rogers has since become one of the most clear-eyed voices on what modern deterrence actually demands: not just firewalls and incident response, but strategic clarity about where red lines lie and what crossing them costs. As Europe races to build its own sovereign cyber capabilities and NATO works to define collective defence in a domain that respects no border, Rogers brings the perspective of someone who has had to answer those questions in real time, with real consequences.

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Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
10:45–11:00 CEST
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Steve Clemons’ Talk Show with Margus Tsahkna

Estonia has been warning Europe about Russia longer than most were willing to listen, and has been proved right. Margus Tsahkna, Foreign Minister since 2023 and holder of Estonia's Nordic-Baltic presidency in 2026, brings to this conversation the perspective of a country that shares a border with Russia, spends more than three percent of GDP on defence, and has no patience for ambiguity about what is at stake. In his annual foreign policy address earlier this year, he was blunt: an era has ended, and the rules that governed it may no longer apply. He joins us to make the case for what Europe must do now, on Ukraine, on sanctions, on enlargement, and on the kind of security architecture that does not repeat the mistakes of the past.

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Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
11:05–11:35 CEST
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Steve Clemons’ Talk Show with Sameh Shoukry

Join us as Steve Clemons chats with Sameh Shoukry, Former Foreign Minister of Egypt, on Albright Stage about five decades navigating the region's most complex crises.

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Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
11:40–12:00 CEST
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Steve Clemons’ Talk Show with Maciej Witucki

European business is navigating a moment of compounding pressures: the competitiveness gap with the US and China, the costs of defence ramp-up, energy transition, and the unresolved question of what Ukraine's integration into the European economy ultimately means. Maciej Witucki, who served as CEO of Orange Polska and led Poland's Lewiatan employers' confederation before becoming BusinessEurope's Vice President and its special envoy on EU-Ukraine business relations, speaks from both the boardroom and the negotiating table. His conversation will focus on what European business actually needs from its policymakers, and what it fears it is not getting.

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Chat Steve Clemons’ Talk Show
Saturday, 23. 5. 2026
12:00–12:15 CEST
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