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American economist (born 1951)
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 .
Biography
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]
Media
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]
Selected works
Books
Books edited
Contributed works
Reports
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.
See also
References
^ "Patrick Lyell Clawson". Marquis Who's Who on the Web . Marquis Who's Who LLC. 2006.
^
"Mr. Patrick Clawson" .
Strategic Studies Institute . Archived from
the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^
"How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout" .
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy . Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^
How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout .
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy , 24 September 2012. Available via
YouTube .
^ Ingersoll, Geoffrey and Michael Kelley.
“Lobbyist Says Israel Should Create A 'False Flag' To Start A War With Iran” . 26 September 2012.
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"Patrick Clawson" (Website) . C-SPAN . Retrieved 24 June 2019 .
^
Maxwell, Kenneth .
Review of The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick Clawson & Rensselaer W. Lee III.
Foreign Affairs , Vol. 75, No. 6, November 1, 1996.
doi :
10.2307/20047869 .
JSTOR
20047869 .
^ 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.
JSTOR
24692614 .
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