| Biography | Dr. Clawson is the co-author, with Rensselaer Lee, of several books on the Andean drug trade including The Andean Cocaine Industry, Crop Substitution in the Andes (ONDCP, 1994), and The Negative Consequences of Narcotics for the Andean Nation (U.S. Information Agency, 1993). He has been a consultant to U.S. A.I.D., Organization of American States, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, U.S. Information Agency, and U.S. Institute of Peace on the economic effects of the cocaine industry on Andean economies.Dr. Clawson has written op-ed articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, among other major newspapers, and has appeared often on television news and public affairs programs. From 1981 through 1992, he was a senior economist for four years each at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where was also the editor of Orbis, a quarterly review of foreign affairs. He has done extensive work on the policy implications for the U.S. of economic developments in the Middle East, including five books and more than thirty scholarly articles. For the past three years, he has been the editor of the Institute for National Strategic Studies' annual Strategic Assessment.
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