Patrick Lyell Clawson (born March 30, 1951) is an American

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and Middle East scholar. He is currently the Director for Research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of ''

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''.

Biography

Born in

Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of downtown Washington, D.C. In 2020, the population was 159,467. ...

, Clawson graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and earned a Ph.D. from

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in 1978. He taught at

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the ...

from 1979 to 1981 and served as a senior economist for the

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from 1981 until 1985, when he took a position as a senior economist with the

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. 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 ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Clawson was co-convenor of the Presidential Study Group organized by The Washington Institute. 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

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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
'.

Media

Clawson first appeared on C-SPAN in a 1990 Forum as a Research Scholar for the

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, and has since appeared upwards of two dozen times.

Selected works

Books * ''The Andean Cocaine Industry'', with Rensselaer W. Lee III. St. Martin’s Press, August 1996. . * ''Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions'', with Henry D. Sokolski. Strategic Studies Institute, 2004. . * ''Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos'', with Michael Rubin.

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, 2005. .
''The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars''
with Rudi Matthee & Willem Floor. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. .Werner, Christoph
Review of ''The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars''
by Patrick Clawson, Rudi Matthee, and Willem Floor. ''

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'', vol. 77, no. 1, 2014, pp. 222–224. . Books edited
''Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran''
with Henry D. Sokolski. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: '' Strategic Studies Institute'',

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, October 2005. . . 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 Holly Sklar (born 1955) is an author and syndicated columnist for '' Z Magazine'',

. Boston: South End Press, 1980, pp. 324–338.
"U.S. Sanctions."''The Iran Primer''

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, 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 Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian, writer, and commentator. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its ''Middle East Quarterly'' journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the ...

. '' Foreign Affairs'', Vol. 72, No. 1, January 1, 1992.
"How to Eliminate Iran’s Nuclear Weapons."
''

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'', 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?"
''

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'', August 16, 2010.
"The U.S. and Israel: Same View of Threat, Different View on Force."
''

'', 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."
''

'', 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clawson, Patrick 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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