Speaker Biographies

December 1, 2005

Patrick L. Clawson, co-author of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos, is Deputy Director for Research of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His previous positions include five years as senior research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University and senior economist for four years each at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2005, edited with Henry Sokolski); Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2004, edited with Henry Sokolski); and U.S. Sanctions on Iran (Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, 1997). Mr. Clawson is senior editor of Middle East Quarterly.

Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow studying Middle East affairs at AEI. Since 9/11, he has focused on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as on terrorism and intelligence. He is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) and The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy (AEI Press, 2004). He is a contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Mr. Gerecht formerly held positions as the director of the Middle East Initiative for the Project for the New American Century and as a Middle Eastern specialist in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Michael Rubin, co-author of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos, is a resident scholar at AEI and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Rubin worked as a staff advisor for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in which capacity he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He has previously worked as a lecturer in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, and at three different universities in northern Iraq. Mr. Rubin is also the author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001).
 
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research for International Affairs Center and a professor at the Interdisciplinary University. He is also editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs and of Turkish Studies. In the current academic year, he is the Seymour & Lillian Abensohn Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at American University. Mr. Rubin is a prolific author, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the author of more than a dozen books, the most recent of which is The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East and Hating America: A History.

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