Patrick Clawson

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Patrick Clawson
Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Patrick Clawson is Morningstar senior fellow and director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the author or editor of twenty-four books and monographs, including Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Palgrave, 2005, with Michael Rubin) and Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2005, edited with Henry Sokolski).

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"Talk is Cheap"  — Clawson, Patrick — Foreign Affairs — September 24, 2013

Patrick Clawson argues that the shift in Iranian public opinion against the nuclear program was more responsible for bringing Iran to the negotiating table than economic sanctions and proposes ways in which the U.S. could use this to its advantage.

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Iranian Public Opinion
"Iran Can’t Agree to a Damn Thing"  — Clawson, Patrick — Foreign Policy — February 20, 2013

The author argues that negotiations and diplomacy is unlikely to succeed as long as the Iranian government remains so disunited and dysfunctional.

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Negotiations