Curriculum Vita Mark T. Clark, Ph.D. National Security Studies Program California State University 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407 Office: (909) 537-5491 Email: [email protected] Position(s): •

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Professor, Political Science and Director of the National Security Studies Program, California State University, San Bernardino (Chair, Political Science, 1998-2003, 2005); Director, CSU Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, September 2006-present; President, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), August 2007-present; Member, Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), November 2007-2011; Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, 2007-2008; Associate Fellow, the Claremont Institute on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy.

Degrees earned: Ph.D.: International Relations, School of International Relations, University of Southern California, May 1989. M.A.: School of International Relations, University of Southern California, December 1986. B.A.: History, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, June 1984. Academic Specialization: Undergraduate: Classical Civilization (Greece and Rome). Senior Thesis: “Constantine’s Conversion to Christianity.” Graduate: Defense and Strategic Studies, Soviet Foreign Policy, International Politics and Diplomacy, International Relations Theory, Methodology. Dissertation: “The Soviet Political Campaign Against the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative,” May 1989. Courses taught: • Undergraduate: (USC) World Communist Movement; (USC) Soviet Foreign Policy; (CSUSB) PSCI 203: U.S. and California Government; PSCI 325: American Foreign Policy; PSCI 400: International Relations Theory; PSCI 484: National Security Policy. Current as of February 2013

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Graduate: (CSUSB) PSCI 600: The Theory and History of Strategy; PSCI 601: Strategic Systems and Thought; PSCI: 602: International Security; PSCI 604: Seminar on International Law; PSCI 605: Soviet Foreign Policy; PSCI 609: Theories of International Relations.

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Principal Investigator, $1.9 million to develop a “Long Term Center of Academic Excellence” for CSUSB’s National Security Studies program, awarded by the Defense Intelligence Agency, Award # HM1582-11-BAA-0001, March 30, 2012. Principal Investigator, $86,000 grant to develop an analysis of the threat of counterfeit products to Honda’s supply chain, contract with American Honda Motor Corporation, August 2010-January 2011. Principal Investigator, $3.75 million grant to establish an “Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence” for the California State University consortium of seven campuses, awarded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), through the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Award # HM158206-1-2048, September 26, 2006. Foundation for Defense of Democracies, travel and study grant to Israel to study counterterrorism, May 25-June 8, 2007. Principal Investigator, $3,500 grant to research and write an essay on how small nuclear powers view the deterrence theory of Mutual Assured Destruction, awarded by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Washington, D.C., February 2003. Essay published in U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute publication: “Small Nuclear Powers,” in Henry Sokolski, ed., Getting MAD: A History of Mutual Assured Destruction (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College: Institute of Strategic Studies, 2004). Principal Investigator, $5,500 grant to research and write an essay on a new strategic arms agreement proposal by President Vladimir Putin on reducing strategic nuclear arms, TRW May-August 2000. Essay published in journal, Orbis: “Seven Worries about START III,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 175-192. Principal Investigator, $1,200 grant to write an essay on teaching security studies, awarded by the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., February 1995. Essay published: Conflict and Peace in the Post-Cold War Era: Theory and Practice,” in Saadia Touval and Pamela R. Aall, eds., Teaching About Conflict and Peacemaking: Syllabi from the Faculty Seminar Program (Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, August 1997), pp. 32-47.

Gifts: Donated $21,000 to establish and endow the Ralph and Marie Weber Scholarship in National Security Studies, March 2011.

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Curriculum Vita Mark T. Clark, Ph.D. Negotiated for a $6.5 million gift of software from i2, Inc., including the award-winning software, Analyst’s Notebook, used by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, for four campuses of the CSU Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, January 2008. Agreements: Negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with British Columbia Institute of Technology, Forensics Investigations, emphasis on Crime and Intelligence Analysis for Canadian students to emphasize intelligence and Canadian security issues in the National Security Studies program at CSUSB, December 2007. Publications: •



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co-authored with Brian Janiskee, “Developing STORM: A Methodology for Evaluating Transit Routes of Transnational Terrorists and Criminals,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 53, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 35-42. “Nuclear Deterrence for Small Nuclear Powers,” in Bradley Thayer, ed., Analyses of American National Security Policy, (National Institute Press, National Institute of Public Policy, Alexandria VA: 2007). “Does Clausewitz Apply to Criminal States and Criminal Gangs?,” Global Crime, Vol. 7, Issue 3-4 (August-November 2006), pp. 407-427. “Just or Unjust War?,” Crosswalk, February/March 2006, pp. 30-33. “Small Nuclear Powers,” in Henry Sokolski, ed., Getting MAD: A History of Mutual Assured Destruction (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College: Institute of Strategic Studies, 2004). Review of Colin Gray, The Sheriff (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), for Naval War College Review, Summer/Fall 2004. Review of Baylis, Cohen, Wirtz, and Gray, Contemporary Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), for Naval War College Review, Fall 2002. “Law Upon Order,” Brandeis Law Review Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Spring 2002), pp. 759-780. “How Nations Decide to Go Nuclear,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 466-475. “Seven Worries about START III,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 175-192. “The Clinton Legacy on Ballistic Missile Defense,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July-September 2000), pp. 201-220. Review of Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 400 p., in Naval War College Review, Vol. LIII, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 225-227. “The Danger of Trendy Strategies,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Winter 2000). with Brian T. Kennedy, Why Nuclear War is Possible: The Common Sense Case for a National Missile Defense (Claremont, CA: The Claremont Institute, December 1999), 20p. Current as of February 2013

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“The Reagan Legacy Up for Grabs,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 152-161. “Semper Fidelis,” in Paul M. Anderson, ed., Professors Who Believe: The Spiritual Journey of Christian Faculty (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998, pp. 119-130. “Loose Canons,” a response to Bruce Blair’s review essay on Peter Pry’s War Scare: Countdown to Nuclear Armageddon, in The National Interest, Fall 1998. “The Continuing Relevance of Clausewitz,” Strategic Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 54-61. “Should the United States Contain China?,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 275-292. Conflict and Peace in the Post-Cold War Era: Theory and Practice,” in Saadia Touval and Pamela R. Aall, eds., Teaching About Conflict and Peacemaking: Syllabi from the Faculty Seminar Program (Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, August 1997), pp. 32-47. “Restore Competitive Intelligence,” Strategic Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 74-77. “Proliferation in the Second Nuclear Age,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 130-139. “The Big Uneasy,” National Review West, March 26, 1996. “Arms Control is Not Enough,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Winter 1996), pp. 71-84. “The Paradox of War and Pacifism,” The Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, Vol. 47, No. 4, (December 1995), pp. 220-232. “The Trouble with Collective Security,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 1995), pp. 237-258. Solicited comment on Robin Ranger, “Theater Missile Defenses: Lessons from British Experiences with Air and Missile Defenses,” Comparative Strategy, Fall 1994; published in “Letters to the Editor,” Comparative Strategy, Winter 1995. “The Future of Clinton’s Foreign and Defense Policy: Multilateral Security,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 181-196. 1 “START and The Bush Initiative,” Global Affairs, Vol. VII, No. 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 132-149. “Gorbachev’s New Line: Twenty Years After the Brezhnev Doctrine,” Global Affairs, Vol. III, No. 4 (Fall 1988), pp. 71-86. “The ABM Treaty Interpretation Dispute: Partial Analyses and the Forgotten Context,” Global Affairs, Vol. II, No. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 58-79.

Online Publications: On Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/): 1

Cited by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer, The Next War (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1996). Current as of February 2013

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“Solving the Iranian Dilemma,” November 24, 2008. Comment on “Iran: Obama’s Options,” November 11, 2008. Summer Books, Antonio Giustozzi, Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop (Columbia University Press, 2007), July 21, 2008. Comment on “Assign Iran to Israel?,” June 26, 2008. Comment on “Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored,” May 29, 2008. “Please Note: ASMEA,” March 12, 2008. “Iran’s Nuclear Program: More Evidence,” March 5, 2008. “NIE Redux,” February 10, 2008. “Fundamental Flaw in the NIE,” December 22, 2007.

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Review of Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six Day War (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007). Review of Antonio Giustozzi, Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (New York: Columbia University, 2008), posted February 2008. Review of Frederick Kagan, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (New York, Encounter, 2006), posted December 2007. Review of Raymond Ibrahim, The Al Qaeda Reader (New York, Doubleday, 2007), posted November 2007.

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“Regions of the World, Syllabus Project for the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Washington, D.C., on a grant for the Carnegie Foundation, February 2002. “Why China Compels Us to Deploy Ballistic Missile Defenses,” a paper given at the conference, “The Taiwan Relations Act: Twenty Years Later,” Sponsored in part by the Claremont Institute, in Pasadena, April 12, 1999. “Should the United States Contain China?,” presentation to the Asia/Pacific Security Conference, sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, The Claremont Institute, at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, December 1, 1995. “Problems with Collective Security,” presentation at the Annual Academic Symposium of the UN-recognized INGO, The World League of Freedom and Democracy, UN Plaza Hotel, New York, July 29, 1995. “The Future of Soviet Military Strategy,” a paper interpreting Soviet defense policy under Gorbachev, accepted for publication by the journal Communication and Persuasion until the aborted Soviet coup of 1991. “Soviet/U.S. Strategic Defense Programs,” a conference paper for the “United States Security Strategy for the 1990s,” Southwest Missouri State University, April 1989. Current as of February 2013

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“The Montreux Convention,” a chapter accepted for publication by the Hoover Institution, December 1987.

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Review of article “Targeting the Rogue States” for International Politics, requested by Elizabeth George, Assistant Editor, Miami University, October 15, 2001. Review of Donald Snow, National Security: Defense Policy for a New International Order (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), Fourth Edition, April 1996. Review of Prospectus, and Chapters 2 and 3 of Armed Truce, considered for publication by Prentice Hall (New Jersey), Justin Belinski, Editorial Assistant, March 1996. Review of Lineberry, Edwards, and Wattenberg, Government in America, 6th Edition, Chapter 20, “Foreign and Defense Policy Making,” for HarperCollins Publishing House, August 1994. Review of manuscript, Beyond Anarchy, for Crane/Russak publishing house, November 25, 1991. Review of manuscript, Analysis of Superpower Nuclear Strategy: Compellence as a Competing Paradigm to that of Deterrence, for Crane/Russak, July 27, 1991. Review of manuscript, USSR and International Security: Dynamics of Changes, for Crane/Russak, July 17, 1991. Review of manuscript, UNIDIR, for Crane/Russak, May 7, 1991.

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Participant in teaching strategies on the subject of strategic weapons proliferation with the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Henry D. Sokolski, Director, Washington, D.C., 2001-2004. Participant in the teaching seminar on Nuclear Proliferation: “The Problem of Supply,” sponsored by the Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict, U.C. San Diego and Women in International Security, at the University of California, Davis, November 1996. Participant, “The Uses of Writing in All Disciplines,” Spring Seminar 1996. Sponsored by the Department of English/Writing Center, California State University, San Bernardino, Division of Undergraduate Studies. Participant in the teaching seminar on Nuclear Proliferation: “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate,” sponsored by the Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict, U.C. San Diego, at the University of California, Berkeley, March 1996. Participant in the summer seminar on Teaching about the Proliferation of Strategic Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 8-14, 1995. Sponsored by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Washington, DC. Current as of February 2013

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Participant in the summer seminar on Teaching about Peace and Conflict in an Evolving World, U.S. Institute of Peace and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, July 15-21, 1995. Sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC.

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Presided over annual meetings of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) as president, 2008, 2009, 2010. Presenter for discussion on nonproliferation, at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Monterey, CA, April 24-25, 2002. Participant on the Panel on Grand Strategy at the annual ISA Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 24, 2002. Presented the thesis for my new book on reintroducing justice to the discussion of defense policy and grand strategy. Seminar, “Critique of the Just War Theory,” for the C.S. Lewis Foundation, Faculty Forum Spring Conference, Rediscovering Evil: A Challenge to the Academy, Kellogg West, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, February 2, 2002. “Why China Compels Us to Deploy Ballistic Missile Defenses,” a conference paper given at the “Twenty Years after the Taiwan Relations Act,” sponsored by the Claremont Institute, Pasadena, April 12, 1999. “Whether to Contain China,” a conference paper given at the Asia/Pacific Security Conference, sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, The Claremont Institute, at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, December 1, 1995. “The Problems with Collective Security,” a conference paper to the Academic Conference of the UN-recognized NGO, The World League of Freedom and Democracy, during the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, The UN Plaza Hotel, New York, July 29, 1995. “Soviet/U.S. Strategic Defense Programs,” a conference paper for the “United States Security Strategy for the 1990s,” Southwest Missouri State University, April 1989. Rapporteur at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School for the Conference on Soviet Perceptions Management Efforts, September 1985.

Current as of February 2013