Dr. Colin P. Clarke is a Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, where his research focuses on insurgency/counterinsurgency, unconventional/irregular/asymmetric warfare (including cyber) and a range of other national & international security issues and challenges. From a methodological standpoint, he is interested in measurement, assessment and evaluation, from tactical to strategic. At the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, he is an affiliated scholar with research interests related to transnational terrorism and violent non-state actors. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches courses on international organized crime and threat finance. At Carnegie Mellon University, Clarke is a lecturer in the Institute for Politics and Strategy where he teaches courses on contemporary comparative political systems, diplomacy & statecraft, and U.S. Grand Strategy, with a focus on foreign and security policy. In 2011, he spent three months embedded with Combined Joint Inter-agency Task Force Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan, working on anti-corruption efforts and analyzing the nexus between terrorists, drug traffickers, and a range of political and economic power brokers. CJIATF Shafafiyat was commanded by General H.R. McMaster. Clarke is the author Terrorism, Inc.: The Financing of Terrorism, Insurgency, and Irregular Warfare, published by Praeger Security International.