Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Mark T. Clark is professor of political science and director of the National Security Studies program at California State University, San Bernardino. He specializes in national security affairs, including nuclear weapons, strategy and deterrence, and theories on war. His most recent works examine the theory of war developed by Carl von Clausewitz as applied to non-state actors, including terrorist organizations, and the deterrence policies of small nuclear powers, including India, Israel, Pakistan, and, when it had them, the Republic of South Africa. He is currently working on extending this work to include Iran and North Korea.

In the Fall of 2006, Professor Clark received a multi-year grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish a California State University Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence among a consortium of seven campuses of the CSU system. Clark is an adjunct fellow with the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1973-1977. He is president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.

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