Patrick Lyell Clawson | |
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Born | March 30, 1951 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Oberlin College (B.A.) The New School for Social Research (Ph.D.) |
Occupation(s) | Economist, Middle East scholar |
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]
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