Patrick Clawson

Patrick Lyell Clawson (born March 30, 1951

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

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

• ISBN 978-0312124007.^[7]
• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions, with
  ISBN 1584871490
  .
• Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos, with
  ISBN 1403962766
  .
• The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars, with Rudi Matthee &
  ISBN 978-1780760797.^[8]

• Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran, with
  JSTOR resrep12040
  .

• "'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.

See also

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

References