Peter Clement
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Peter Clement is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar/Adjunct Professor at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs. He teaches courses on Contemporary Russian Security Policy and Intelligence and US Foreign Policy. Clement comes to SIPA from CIA, where he served as Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia since 2015. From 2005-2013, he was Deputy Director for Intelligence for Analytic Programs. Other senior positions include tours as Director of the Office of Russian and Eurasian Analysis and CIA’s Russia Issue Manager from 1997-2003. Clement served as the PDB daily briefer for Vice-President Cheney, NSC Adviser Rice and Deputy NSC Adviser Hadley in 2003-2004. He briefly served at the National Security Council as the Director for Russia and later served as the senior CIA representative to the US Mission to the United Nations. Clement has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2001 and is a longtime member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. He taught Russian history and politics for over 10 years as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia’s northern Virginia campus. He has published journal articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, Central Asia, and the Cuban missile crisis. Clement holds a Ph.D. in Russian history and an M.A. in Modern European history from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in liberal arts from SUNY-Oswego.
Education
- PhD in Russian History, Michigan State University
- MA in Modern European History, Michigan State University
- BA, SUNY-Oswego
In The Media
Peter Clement has published a chapter, "How Putin Turned Foreign Policy Success into Strategic Defeat," in a new edited volume, Failure. Russia Under Putin (Brookings Institution Press, 2025).
Every May, SIPA faculty recommend their best reads of the year, which range from policy tomes to collections of poetry.
Through a series of major events and convenings—including those organized by the Institute of Global Politics (IGP), the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS)—SIPA tackled some of the most important domestic and foreign policy issues of the new administration’s first 100 days.
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