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

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, Clawson graduated with a B.A. from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

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

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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 ''

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'', ''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
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Media

Clawson first appeared on

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in a 1990 Forum as a Research Scholar for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and has since appeared upwards of two dozen times.

Selected works

Books * ''The Andean Cocaine Industry'', with Rensselaer W. Lee III.

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, 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. '' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'', 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'',

U.S. Army War College The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army, U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle B ...

, 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. 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. ''

'', 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. ''

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'', No. 158, January–February 2007, pp. 6, 8, 10, 12.
"The 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn't Want You to Read."
''

'', June 24, 2009.
"No Nixon-to-China Moment Here."
''

'', 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."
''

'', May 8, 2012.
"Don't Throw Iran's Democrat's Under the Bus."
''

'', April 13, 2012.
"Will Iran Weather the Economic Storm?"
''

'', October 11, 2012.
"Obama, Offer Iran a Generous Deal."
''

'', January 16, 2013.
"Iran Can't Agree to a Damn Thing."
''

'', February 20, 2013.
"Stalemate's End?"
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'', September 19, 2013.
"Talk is Cheap."
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'', September 24, 2013.

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