Colin P. Clarke

Colin P. Clarke is an American political scientist and national security studies scholar whose work focuses on terrorism, insurgency, and transnational crime. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Soufan Center and Director of Research at the Soufan Group, specializing in domestic and international security issues. Clarke is an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, non-resident Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Associate Fellow with the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, and member of the Network of Experts at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. He also serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Perspectives on Terrorism. His work at RAND included studies on the financing of the Islamic State, the evolution of global terrorism, and comparative analyses of insurgencies since the Second World War. He received his Ph.D. in international security policy from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Books

After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora Terrorism, Inc.: The Financing of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Irregular Warfare Moscow's Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group