Patrick Clawson

Patrick Lyell Clawson (born March 30, 1951^[1] ) is an American economist and Middle East scholar. He is currently the Director for Research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly .

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Clawson graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and earned a Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research in 1978. He taught at Seton Hall University from 1979 to 1981 and served as a senior economist for the International Monetary Fund from 1981 until 1985, when he took a position as a senior economist with the World Bank.

Clawson has published many articles on the Middle East in Foreign Affairs , International Economy, Orbis , Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and Middle East Journal. He has additionally published opinion pieces in The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and Washington Post . Clawson was co-convenor of the Presidential Study Group organized by The Washington Institute.^[2] The group published its recommendations to the new Bush administration in the form of a monograph, Navigating Through Turbulence: America and the Middle East in a New Century, published by The Washington Institute in 2001.

Clawson drew criticism for a presentation on September 21, 2012 in which he suggested the United States could consider the use of "crisis initiation" as a method of provoking Iran into war. This was part of a presentation given with Dennis Ross and David Makovsky at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy entitled How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout .^{[3] [4] [5]}

Clawson first appeared on C-SPAN in a 1990 Forum as a Research Scholar for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and has since appeared upwards of two dozen times.^[6]

Books

• The Andean Cocaine Industry, with Rensselaer W. Lee III. St. Martin's Press, August 1996. ISBN 978-0312124007.^[7]
• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions, with Henry D. Sokolski. Strategic Studies Institute, 2004. ISBN 1584871490.
• Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos, with Michael Rubin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 1403962766.
• The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars, with Rudi Matthee & Willem Floor. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 978-1780760797.^[8]

Books edited

• Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran, with Henry D. Sokolski. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute , U.S. Army War College, October 2005. ISBN 158487211X. JSTOR resrep12040.

Contributed works

• "'Guided Markets': Carter's Energy Plan and the Restructuring of U.S. Capital," with Allen Kaufman. Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, edited by Holly Sklar. Boston: South End Press, 1980, pp. 324–338.
• "U.S. Sanctions." The Iran Primer. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010.

Reports

• Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities. Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, April 1994.

Articles and essays

• "Ambitious Iran, Troubled Neighbors," with Daniel Pipes. Foreign Affairs , Vol. 72, No. 1, January 1, 1992.
• "How to Eliminate Iran's Nuclear Weapons." Claremont Review of Books , Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2006.
• "Saving the Neocons," with Stephen Wrage, Peter Abbott, Flynt Leverett and Joshua Muravchik. Foreign Policy , No. 158, January-February 2007, pp. 6, 8, 10, 12.
• "The 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn't Want You to Read." Foreign Policy , June 24, 2009.
• "No Nixon-to-China Moment Here." Foreign Policy , October 1, 2009.
• "How Much Brinksmanship Will Israel Tolerate?" The Atlantic , August 16, 2010.
• "The U.S. and Israel: Same View of Threat, Different View on Force." The Atlantic , August 20, 2010.
• "Sanctions Are Only a Stop-Gap." Foreign Affairs , May 8, 2012.
• "Don't Throw Iran's Democrat's Under the Bus." Foreign Policy , April 13, 2012.
• "Will Iran Weather the Economic Storm?" Foreign Policy , October 11, 2012.
• "Obama, Offer Iran a Generous Deal." The Atlantic , January 16, 2013.
• "Iran Can't Agree to a Damn Thing." Foreign Policy , February 20, 2013.
• "Stalemate's End?" Foreign Policy , September 19, 2013.
• "Talk is Cheap." Foreign Affairs , September 24, 2013.

• Iranistics
• Middle East Quarterly
• US-Iran relations
• Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Biography at RightWeb
• Biography at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• Biography at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Patrick Clawson discography at Discogs
• Patrick Clawson at Internet Archive
• Patrick Clawson at WorldCat
• References to Patrick Clawson at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Works by Patrick Clawson at The Atlantic
• Works by Patrick Clawson at Foreign Affairs
• Works by Patrick Clawson at the Middle East Forum

• Living people
• Oberlin College alumni
• The New School alumni
• Seton Hall University faculty
• 1951 births
• Middle Eastern studies in the United States
• The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Middle East Forum
• Economists from New York (state)
• 21st-century American economists

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• People appearing on C-SPAN