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Colin P. Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center. He is the Director of Policy and Research at The Soufan Group, where his research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. Prior to joining The Soufan Group, Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he spent a decade researching terrorism, insurgency, and criminal networks. At RAND, Clarke led studies on ISIS financing, the future of terrorism and transnational crime, and lessons learned from all insurgencies since the end of the World War II.
Clarke is also an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) – The Hague, a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), and a member of the “Network of Experts” at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Clarke serves as part of the research advisory council at the RESOLVE Network and is a member of the advisory board at the International Counter-Terrorism Review (ICTR). He serves on the editorial board of three of the leading scholarly journals in the field of terrorism studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Perspectives on Terrorism.
Clarke has testified before Congress on numerous occasions as an expert witness on a range of terrorism-related issues, appears frequently in the media to discuss national security-related matters, and has published several books on terrorism, including his most recent, After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora.
Clarke has briefed his research at a range of national and international security forums, including the U.S. Army War College, US Air Force Special Operations School, Society for Terrorism Research International Conference, the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) and the Counter ISIS Financing Group (CIFG), which is part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. In 2011, he spent several months as an analyst with Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat at ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, working for General H.R. McMaster, the former U.S. National Security Advisor, where he was responsible for analyzing criminal patronage networks in Afghanistan and how these networks fueled the insurgency.
Clarke has a Ph.D. in international security policy from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA).
BOOKS
TERRORISM INC:
The Financing of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Irregular Warfare
Praeger Security International 2015
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CONFERENCES & EVENTS
The Forum on Returning Foreign Fighters
Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Policy Tools, Designation, and Financing
October 30, 2018
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
ISIS After its Demise in Iraq and Syria
September, 2017
RADIO & PODCAST INTERVIEWS

KOMO NEWS
President Trump expects US to claim all remaining ISIS territory, including caliphate
February 6, 2019
SPEECHES & REMARKS

United States House of Representatives
“Survey of Terrorist Groups and Their Means of Financing” Testimony of Mr. Colin P. Clarke, before the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance
September 7, 2018

United States House of Representatives
“Jihadist Violence in the Caucasus: Russia Between Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency” Testimony presented by Mr. Colin P. Clarke, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
November 7, 2017
COMMENTARY
Foreign Policy
Baghdadi’s Death Will Make Global Affiliates More Independent
October 28, 2019
Foreign Policy
Iran’s Proxies Are More Powerful Than Ever
October 16, 2019
Foreign Affairs
The Islamic State Meets Southeast Asia
September 16, 2019
Foreign Policy
Al Qaeda Is Ready to Attack You Again
September 4, 2019
SLATE
China’s Global War on Terrorism
August 26, 2019
Foreign Policy
Like Terrorist Father, Like Terrorist Son
August 1, 2019
The National Interest
America’s National Defense Strategy and the Paradox of Technology
January 30, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Withdrawing From Syria Leaves a Vacuum That Iran Will Fill
January 8, 2019
Foreign Policy
The United States Can’t Rely on Turkey to Defeat ISIS
January 2, 2019
Foreign Policy
ISIS’s New Plans to Get Rich and Wreak Havoc, Foreign Affairs
October 10, 2018
The National Interest
Predicting the Next ISIS
October 8, 2018
The Atlantic
London and the Mainstreaming of Vehicular Terrorism
June 4, 2018