Education
Oberlin College; The New School.
Oberlin College; The New School.
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 Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1973 and earned a Doctor of Philosophy from The New School for Social Research in 1978. He taught at Seton Hall University from 1979–1981 and served as an economist for the International Monetary Fund from 1981 until 1985, when he took a position as a senior economist with the World Bank.
In September 2012, Clawson suggested that the United States consider the use of "crisis initiation" as a way to provoke Iran into war.
