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Neta Crawford

Neta C. Crawford is an American political scientist. She holds the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at Oxford and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. Her research interests focus on ethics, war, emotions in world politics, normative change, and climate change.

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Table of content
  1. Education and Career
  2. Grants and Awards
  3. Publications and Books

Education and Career

Neta Crawford pursued her BA in independent concentration entitled “The War System and Alternatives to Militarism” from Brown University in 1985. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. From 1994 to 1996, Crawford continued her post-doctoral fellowship at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

From 1992 to 1993, Crawford joined Clark University as a visiting professor. She continued her career as an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts from 1993 to 2004. From 2001-2005, Crawford worked as an associate professor and directed the Global Ethics Project at Watson Institute for International Studies. In 2005 Crawford joined Boston University as a Professor of Political Science.

In 2010, Neta co-founded the Costs of War Project to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria. In 2017, Crawford joined the Council for a Livable World board. In 2021, Neta was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Grants and Awards

2018 — Distinguished Scholar prize from the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association
2010 — Resident Fellowship at Blue Mountain Center for “Costs of War” Residency.
2007 — Community and Justice Award from Rhode Island
2002 —Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association
1999 — Social Science Research Council—MacArthur Foundation Program in Peace and International Security grant
1998-1999 — Peace Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
1995 — International Studies Association Spring Small Workshop Grant for “How Sanctions Work.”
1989-1991 — Social Science Research Council—MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Peace and International Security for dissertation research and writing.
1986-1989 — National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate study in political science.
1985 — Eva A. Mooar Premium for intellectual achievement; C.V. Starr National Service Fellowship at Brown University.
1984 — Odyssey Fellowship for Collaborative Learning at Brown University.

Publications and Books

Neta Crawford is an author of several books and numerous research articles dedicated to political science, international relations, and more. Check out her most complete bibliography below.

Books and Monographies

  • Crawford, N. C. (2022). The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. MIT Press.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Kwakwa, M. (2019). The politics of war crimes trials. Cambridge University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2015). War goes public: Directing popular outrage toward illegitimate targets. Cornell University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). Accountability for killing: Moral responsibility for collateral damage in America’s post-9/11 wars. Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2002). Argument and change in world politics: Ethics, decolonization, and humanitarian intervention. Cambridge University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (n.d.). Ordinary Atrocity and Collateral Damage (mss).
  • Crawford, N. C. (n.d.). Civilians and the American Way of War (mss).
  • Crawford, N. C. (2002). Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Klotz, A. (Eds.). (1999). How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa. London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1995). The Domestic Sources and Consequences of Aggressive Foreign Policies: The Folly of South Africa’s ‘Total Strategy’ (1995) monograph Working Paper, no. 41 of the Centre for Southern African Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
  • Crawford, N. (1987). Soviet Military Aircraft. Lexington: Lexington Books. Volume 2 of the World Weapon Database. Assisted by Alan Bloomgarden and Phil Braudaway-Bauman.

Articles

  • Crawford, N. (2021). The Numbers. The Nation, 18-19.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Lutz, C. (2021). Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Afghanistan & Pakistan (Oct. 2001–Aug. 2021); Iraq (March 2003–Aug. 2021); Syria (Sept. 2014–May 2021); Yemen (Oct. 2002-Aug. 2021) and Other Post-9/11 War Zones. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2021). Democracy and the Preparation and Conduct of War. Ethics & International Affairs, 35(3), 353-365.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2020). Afghanistan’s Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020. Watson Institute for International Studies.
  • Crawford, N. (2020). Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy. By Robin Markwica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 671-672. doi:10.1017/S1537592720000948
  • Crawford, N. C., & Lutz, C. (2019). Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Afghanistan and Pakistan (October 2001–October 2019) Iraq (March 2003–October 2019); Syria (September 2014-October 2019); Yemen (October 2002-October 2019); and Other. Costs of War Project.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2019). United States budgetary costs and obligations of post-9/11 wars through FY2020: $6.4 trillion. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 13.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2019). The power of emotions, the emotions of politics: What do we need to know about emotions to make sense of world politics?. In Methodology and Emotion in International Relations (pp. 225-236). Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2019). Pentagon fuel use, climate change, and the costs of war. Watson Institute, Brown University.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2019). The globalization of American war in the 21st century: militarism and imperial renaissance or decline?. Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 53(1), 29-54.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2018). Human cost of the post-9/11 wars: Lethality and the need for transparency. Costs of War, 1-11.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2018). The potential for fundamental change in world politics. International Studies Review, 20(2), 232-238.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2018). Fear, Hope, and the Formation of Specific Intention in Genocide. Emotions and Mass Atrocity: Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations, 42.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2018). United States budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars through FY2019: $5.9 trillion spent and obligated. Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Lutz, C. (2018). Costs of War Project. Watson Institute.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2017). Promoting responsible moral agency: Enhancing institutional and individual capacities. In Moral agency and the politics of responsibility (pp. 36-50). Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2017). United States budgetary costs of Post-9/11 wars through FY2018.
  • Crawford, N. C., Dunne, T., & Reus-Smit, C. (2017). Native Americans and the making of international society. The globalization of international society, 102-21.
  • Crawford, N., Ling, L. H. M., Nexon, D. H., & Sabaratnam, M. (2016). White World Order, Black Power Politics: A Discussion of Robert Vitalis’s” White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations”.
  • Crawford, N. (2016). A Discussion of Robert Vitalis’s White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations. Perspectives on Politics, 14(4), 1123-1125.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2016). Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid-2016. Costs of War.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2016). What is war good for? Background ideas and assumptions about the legitimacy, utility, and costs of offensive war. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18(2), 282-299.
  • Crawford, N. (2016). Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law and Policy. Edited by Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Perspectives on Politics, 14 (1), 263-265. doi:10.1017/S1537592715004120
  • Crawford, N. C. (2016). Studying World Politics as a complex adaptive system. International relations theory today, 263-267.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Lutz, C. (2016). Costs of war. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2015). The Dangerous Leap: Preventive War. In Lessons from Iraq (pp. 12-18). Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2015). War-related death, injury, and displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2015). Accountability for Targeted Drone Strikes Against Terrorists?. Ethics & International Affairs, 29(1), 39-49.
  • Arena, P., Nicoletti, N.P., Devetak, R., Molloy, S.P., Bleiker, R., Hutchison, E., Mercer, J., Crawford, N.C., McDermott, R., Fierke, K.M. and Reus-Smit, C., 2014. International Theory.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2014). Institutionalizing passion in world politics: Fear and empathy. International Theory, 6(3), 535-557.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2014). Targeting Civilians and US Strategic Bombing. In The American Way of Bombing (pp. 64-86). Cornell University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2014). US Costs of Wars Through 2014: $4.4 Trillion and Counting. Boston University.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2014). War “In Our Name” and the Responsibility to Protest: Ordinary Citizens, Civil Society, and Prospective Moral Responsibility. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 38 (1):138-170.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2014). Preventive war is unjustifiable. In David M. Haugen (ed.), War. Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2014). Civilians Killed in US Operations in Yemen. report published on the website of the Costs of War Project. Accessed November, 13.
  • Crawford, N. (2014). US Costs of Wars Through 2014, $4.4 Trillion and Counting: Summary of Costs for the US Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Costs of War Project.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). Bugsplat: US Standing Rules of Engagement, International Humanitarian Law, Military Necessity, and Noncombatant Immunity. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice, 231-50.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). Emotions and international security: Cave! Hic libido. Critical Studies on Security, 1(1), 121-123.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). The Iraq War: Ten years in ten numbers. Foreign Policy, 20.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). Civilian death and injury in the Iraq war, 2003-2013. Cost of War.
  • Marlier, G., & Crawford, N. C. (2013). Incomplete and imperfect institutionalisation of empathy and altruism in the ‘responsibility to protect’doctrine. Global Responsibility to Protect, 5(4), 397-422.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2013). US Costs of Wars Through 2013: $3.1 Trillion and Counting: Summary of Costs for the US Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Boston University.
  • Crawford, N. (2013). Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars. Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2012). Human nature and world politics: ecce Hayward Alker’s homo politicus as homo humanitatis. In Alker and IR (pp. 13-27). Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2011). War Related Death and Injury in Pakistan, 2004-20111. Costs of War: Eisenhower Study Group.
  • Crawford, N., & Lutz, C. (2011). Economic and budgetary costs of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan to the United States: a summary. Costs of War. Brown University, 3-19.
  • Crawford, N. (2011). Assessing the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars: The Dead and Wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, 2001–2011. Cost of War Project.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2011). US Costs of Wars through 2013: $3.1 Trillion and Counting.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2011). Civilian death and injury in Iraq, 2003-2011. Costs of War, 1-28.
  • Crawford, N. C. (2011). Civilian Death and Injury in Afghanistan, 2001-2011. Boston University.
  • Crawford, N. (2010). Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics. In C. Bjola & M. Kornprobst (Eds.), Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning (pp. 93-114). New York: Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. (2010). Decolonization through Trusteeship: the Legacy of Ralph Bunche. In E. Keller & R. Hill (Eds.), Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, The United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa (pp. 93-114). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2009). Human Nature and World Politics: Rethinking ‘Man’. International Relations, 23(2), 271-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117809102753
  • Crawford, N. (2009). No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility. In C. R. Beitz & R. E. Goodin (Eds.), Global Basic Rights (pp. 131-155). Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2009). Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics. Perspectives on Politics, 7(1), 103-124. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592709090103
  • Crawford, N. (2009). Jürgen Habermas. In J. Edkins & N. V. Williams (Eds.), Critical Theorists and International Relations (pp. 187-198). New York: Routledge.
  • Crawford, N. (2009). The Slippery Slope to Preventive War. In J. H. Rosenthal & C. Barry (Eds.), Ethics and International Affairs: A Reader (pp. 37-43). Georgetown University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2007). The False Promise of Preventive War: The ‘New Security Consensus’ and a More Insecure World. In H. Shue & D. Rodin (Eds.), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification (pp. 89-125). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2007). Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity. Journal of Political Philosophy, 15(2), 187-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2007.00263.x
  • Crawford, N. (2007). The Long Peace Among Iroquois Nations. In K. Raaflaub (Ed.), War and Peace in the Ancient World (pp. 348-368). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Crawford, N. (2006). Policy Modeling. In M. Rein, M. Moran, & R. Goodin (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (pp. 769-803). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2006). How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas. In R. Goodin & C. Tilly (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Studies (pp. 266-283). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2005). The Justice of Preemption and Preventive War Doctrines. In M. Evans (Ed.), Just War Theory Revisited (pp. 25-49). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
  • Crawford, N. (2005). To Intervene or Not to Intervene? What Duties? International Relations, 19(2), 229-233.
  • Crawford, N. (2004). The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush’s ‘Preemptive’ War Strategy. In E. A. Castelli & J. R. Jakobsen (Eds.), Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (pp. 89-101). New York: Palgrave.
  • Crawford, N. (2004). The Road to Global Empire: The Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy After 9/11. Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 48(4), 685-703.
  • Crawford, N. (2004). Principia Leviathan: Moral Duties of American Hegemony. Naval War College Review, 57(3), 67-90.
  • Crawford, N. (2004). Understanding Discourse: A Method of Ethical Argument Analysis. Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods, 2(1), 22-25.
  • Crawford, N. (2003). Just War Theory and the US Counterterror War. Perspectives on Politics, 1(1), 5-25. In M. Evangelista (Ed.), Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science (Vol. 3, pp. 161-181). London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Crawford, N. (2003). The Slippery Slope to Preventive War. Ethics & International Affairs, 17(1), 30-36. In C. M. Koggel (Ed.), Moral Issues in Global Perspective,: Vol.1 Moral and Political Theory (2nd ed., pp. 335-346). Broadview Press, 2006.
  • Crawford, N. (2003). Feminist Futures: Science Fiction and the Art of Possibilities. In J. Weldes (Ed.), To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics (pp. 195-220). New York: Palgrave.
  • Crawford, N. (2000). The Passion of World Politics: Propositions on Emotion and Emotional Relationships. International Security, 24(4), 116-156.
  • Crawford, N. C., & Klotz, A. (1999). How Sanctions Work: A Framework for Analysis. In Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work (pp. 25-42).
  • Crawford, N. C. (1999). Trump Card or Theatre: An Introduction to Two Sanctions Debates. In Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work (pp. 3-24).
  • Crawford, N. C. (1999). How Arms Embargoes Work. In Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work (pp. 45-74).
  • Crawford, N. C. (1999). Oil Sanctions Against Apartheid. In Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work (pp. 103-126).
  • Crawford, N. C. (1998). Postmodern Ethical Conditions and a Critical Response. Ethics & International Affairs, 12, 121-140.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1998). South African Anti-Apartheid Revolts and Reform (1948-1994). In J. Goldstone (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (pp. 446-450). Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1997). The Humanitarian Consequences of Sanctioning South Africa: A Preliminary Assessment. In T. G. Weiss, D. Cortright, G. A. Lopez, & L. Minear (Eds.), Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions (pp. 57-89). Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1996). Imag(in)ing Africa. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 1(2), 30-44.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1995). South Africa’s New Foreign and Military Policy: Opportunities and Constraints. Africa Today, 42(1-2), 88-121.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1994). A Security Regime Among Democracies: Cooperation Among Iroquois Nations. International Organization, 48(3), 345-385.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1993). Decolonization as an International Norm: the Evolution of Practices, Arguments, and Beliefs. In L. Reed & C. Kaysen (Eds.), Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention (pp. 37-61). Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1993). Restraining Violence in Early Societies. In R. D. Burns (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (pp. 539-550). NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
  • Crawford, N. C. (1991). Once and Future Security Studies. Security Studies, 1(2), 283-316.

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