NETA C. CRAWFORD, PhD
Department of Political Science, Boston University
232 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215
office: (617) 353-4040
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Professor of Political Science, Boston University, July 2005 to present.
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2015-2016.
Boston University Center For Humanities Fellow, 2016.
Co-Director, Costs of War Project, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, from May 2010. www.costsofwar.org.
Member, International Advisory Board, International Relations, from 2015.
PRIOR ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Associate Professor (Research) and Director of the Global Ethics Project, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, from September 2001-July 2005. Adjunct Professor, July 2005 - July 2008.
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1993-August 2004. (On leave 2001-2004)
Peace Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1998-1999.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1994-1996.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Clark University, Department of Government, Worcester, MA 1992-1993.
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, Center for International Studies, 1991-1992.
MIT, Center for International Studies, Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, 1986-1992.
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1989-1990.
EDUCATION
PhD in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1992. Fields: International Relations; Defense and Arms Control; African Politics.
Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, Brown University, 1985. Independent Concentration: "The War System and Alternatives to Militarism." Honors Thesis: "Ghana 1960-1984: The Genesis and Effects of Military Rule."
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
International Relations Theory; Security; International Organization; International Law; Processes of Institutionalization and Normative Change; Ethics; US Foreign Policy; Economic Sanctions; Human Security; Human and Economic Costs of War; Humanitarian Intervention; Social Movements; South African Foreign and Military Policy; Political Psychology and Emotion; Critical Theory; Qualitative Research Methods.
SERVICE
Member, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, September 2014 - August 2015.
Member, Academic Advisory Board, Eisenhower Research Project, Brown University, from 2010.
Advisory Group Member, Oxford Research Group project Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict from January 2008.
Advisory Board Member for Praxis, an Institute for Social Justice, since 2002; Board of Directors member, since 2006.
Chair, Book Award Committee International Ethics section of the International Studies Association, 2012-2013.
Member, Search Committee for the editor of the American Political Science Review, 2010-2011, the American Political Science Association.
Member, 2011 Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2010-2011.
Chair of the Nominating Committee of the International Studies Association, 2011. Member for a three year term ending 2011.
External Review Committee member of the Political Science Department, Trinity College, 2010.
Member, Dissertation Award Committee, Academic Council on the United Nations System, 2009.
Editorial Board Member, American Political Science Review, September 2001-September 2007.
Ethics Committee Member, American Political Science Association, 2006-2009.
Board of Directors Member, The Academic Council of the United Nations System, 2006-2009.
President's Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2004-2006.
Governing Council member of the American Political Science Association, November 2004-November 2006.
Member, International Editorial Board, Security and Governance book series, Routledge Press from 2006.
International Panel of Editorial Advisers and Consultants, Member, International Encyclopedia of Political Science (Congressional Quarterly) 2005-2010.
Member of the Boston University Council on Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, 2006 - 2008.
Watson Institute for International Studies: Strategic Planning Committee, 2001; appointments committee, 2002-2003; Ralph Bunche Centenary Committee (chair) 2003-2004.
Executive Committee Member of the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review, June 2002-November 2004.
Peer Review Screening Committee member for Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, December 2003-January 2004.
Screening Committee for Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, in 2000, 2001, and 2002, 2008.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
Resident Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, May 2016.
Fellowship Award, Boston University Center for the Humanities, 2015-2016.
Resident Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, May 2010 "Costs of War" Residency.
The 2007 Community and Justice Award, to the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice from Rhode Island for Community and Justice.
Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, 2003 for the best book on international history and politics published in 2002. For Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention. (Co-winner with Dorothy Jones, Toward a Just World.)
Social Science Research Council—MacArthur Foundation Program in Peace and International Security grant, in 1999, to organize a June 2000 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa on "Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa."
Peace Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard Univ., 1998-1999.
International Studies Association, Spring 1995 Small Workshop Grant with Audie Klotz for "How Sanctions Work." For a project workshop of book chapter authors at the ISA Annual Meeting, April 1996.
Social Science Research Council—MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Peace and International Security 1989-1991 for dissertation research and writing.
National Science Foundation Fellowship 1986-1989 for graduate study in political science.
At Brown University: Eva A. Mooar Premium for intellectual achievement, 1985; C.V. Starr National Service Fellowship, 1985; Odyssey Fellowship for Collaborative Learning, 1984.
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation:
Neta C. Crawford, "To Make Heaven Weep": Civilians and the American Way of War (mss).
Books and Monographs
Neta C. Crawford, Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Neta C. Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Neta C. Crawford and Audie Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 1999).
Neta C. Crawford, 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.
Neta Crawford, Soviet Military Aircraft (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1987). Volume 2 of the World Weapon Database. Assisted by Alan Bloomgarden and Phil Braudaway-Bauman.
Peer Reviewed Journal and Book Articles
"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, vol. 18, no. 2 (May 2016) pp. 282-299.
"Preface," in Linda Ahall and Thomas Gregory, eds., Emotions, Politics and War (London: Routledge, 2015) pp. xvi-xxi.
"Accountability for Targeted Drone Strikes Against Terrorists?" Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 2015) pp. 39-49.
"Institutionalizing Passion in World Politics: Fear and Empathy," International Theory, vol. 6, no. 3 (November 2014) pp. 535-557.
"War 'In Our Name' and the Responsibility to Protest: Ordinary Citizens, Civil Society, and Prospective Moral Responsibility," in Peter French and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. Forward-Looking Collective Responsibility, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. XXXVIII (2014) pp. 138-170.
"Targeting Civilians and U.S. Strategic Bombing Norms: Plus ca change, plus c'est la mem chose?" in Mathew Evangelista and Henry Shue, eds., The American Way of Bombing: How Legal and Ethical Norms Change (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014) pp. 64-86.
Grant Marlier and Neta C. Crawford, "Incomplete and Imperfect Institutionalization of Empathy and Altruism in the 'Responsibility to Protect' Doctrine," Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 5, (2013) pp. 397-422.
"Bugsplat: US Standing Rules of Engagement, International Humanitarian Law, Military Necessity, and Noncombatant Immunity" in Anthony F. Lang, Cian O'Driscoll, and John Williams, eds., Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2013) pp. 231-249.
"Emotions and International Security: Cave! Hic Libido," Critical Studies on Security, vol. 1, no. 1 (2013) pp. 121-123.
"Human Nature and World Politics: Ecce Hayward Alker's Homo Politicus as Homo Humanitatis," in Renée Marlin-Bennett, ed., Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World (New York: Routledge, 2012) pp. 13-27.
"Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics," in Corneliu Bjola and Markus Kornprobst, eds., Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning (New York: Routledge, 2010). (reprint of journal article noted below).
"Decolonization through Trusteeship: the Legacy of Ralph Bunche," in Edmund Keller and Robert Hill, eds., Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, The United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010) pp. 93-114.
"Human Nature and World Politics: Rethinking 'Man'," International Relations, vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2009) pp. 271-288. Also in Ken Booth, ed., Realism in World Politics, (New York: Routledge, 2011) pp. 158-176.
"No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility," in Charles R. Beitz and Robert E. Goodin eds., Global Basic Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009) pp. 131-155.
"Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics," Perspectives on Politics, vol. 7, no. 1 (March 2009) pp. 103-124.
"Jürgen Habermas," in Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan Williams, eds. Critical Theorists and International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2009) pp. 187-198.
"The Slippery Slope to Preventive War," in Joel H. Rosenthal and Christian Barry eds., Ethics and International Affairs: A Reader (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009), pp. 37 -43. (slightly revised reprint of my March 2003 piece in the Ethics and International Affairs journal.)
"The False Promise of Preventive War: The 'New Security Consensus' and a More Insecure World," in Henry Shue and David Rodin eds., Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) pp. 89-125.
"Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity," Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2007) pp. 187-212.
"The Long Peace Among Iroquois Nations," in Kurt Raaflaub ed., War and Peace in the Ancient World (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) pp. 348-368.
"Policy Modeling," in Martin Rein, Michael Moran and Robert Goodin, eds., Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) pp. 769-803.
"How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas," in Robert Goodin and Charles Tilly, eds., Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) pp. 266-283.
"The Justice of Preemption and Preventive War Doctrines," for Mark Evans, ed. Just War Theory Revisited (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005) pp. 25-49.
"To Intervene or Not to Intervene? What Duties?" International Relations, vol. 19, no. 2 (2005) pp. 229-233.
"The Best Defense? The Problem with Bush's 'Preemptive' War Strategy," in Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen, eds, Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (New York: Palgrave, 2004) pp. 89-101.
"The Road to Global Empire: The Logic of U.S. Foreign Policy After 9/11," Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, vol. 48, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 685-703.
"Principia Leviathan: Moral Duties of American Hegemony," Naval War College Review, vol. LVII, No. 3 Summer/Autumn 2004, pp. 67-90.
"Understanding Discourse: A Method of Ethical Argument Analysis," in Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods, vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2004) pp. 22-25.
"Just War Theory and the US Counterterror War," Perspectives on Politics, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2003) pp. 5-25. Reprinted in Matthew Evangelista, ed., Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, (London: Routledge 2005) volume 3.
"The Slippery Slope to Preventive War," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2003) pp. 30-36. Reprinted in Christine M. Koggel, ed., Moral Issues in Global Perspective,: Vol. 1 Moral and Political Theory, 2nd ed. (Broadview Press, 2006).
"Feminist Futures: Science Fiction and the Art of Possibilities," in Jutta Weldes, ed., To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2003) pp. 195-220; based on a paper first presented at the University of New Hampshire Conference on International Change, 2 October 1995.
"The Passion of World Politics: Propositions on Emotion and Emotional Relationships," International Security, vol. 24, no. 4 (Spring 2000), pp. 116-156.
"Trump Card or Theatre: An Introduction to Two Sanctions Debates," in Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work (1999), pp. 3-24.
Neta C. Crawford and Audie Klotz, "How Sanctions Work: A Framework for Analysis," in Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work, pp. 25-42.
"How Arms Embargoes Work," in Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work, pp. 45-74.
"Oil Sanctions Against Apartheid," in Crawford and Klotz, eds., How Sanctions Work, pp. 103-126.
"South African Anti-Apartheid Revolts and Reform (1948-1994)," in Jack Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998) pp. 446-450.
"Postmodern Ethical Conditions and a Critical Response," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 12 (1998) pp. 121-140.
"The Humanitarian Consequences of Sanctioning South Africa: A Preliminary Assessment," in Thomas G. Weiss, David Cortright, George A. Lopez, and Larry Minear, eds. Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997), pp. 57-89.
"Imag(in)ing Africa," The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1996) pp. 30-44.
"South Africa's New Foreign and Military Policy: Opportunities and Constraints," Africa Today vol. 42, nos. 1-2 (first and second quarter 1995) pp. 88-121. First presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Toronto, Ontario, November 1994.
"A Security Regime Among Democracies: Cooperation Among Iroquois Nations," International Organization, vol. 48, no. 3 (Summer 1994) pp. 345-385. Reprinted in Matthew Evangelista, ed., Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, (London: Routledge, 2005) volume 1.
"Decolonization as an International Norm: the Evolution of Practices, Arguments, and Beliefs," in Laura Reed and Carl Kaysen eds., Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention (Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993) pp. 37-61. Revised version of a paper for the American Academy conference "Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention" in Cambridge, MA, 4-6 January 1993.
"Restraining Violence in Early Societies," in Richard Dean Burns, ed., Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), pp. 539-550.
"Once and Future Security Studies," Security Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1991) pp. 283-316. Revised version of a paper for the International Security Studies Section meeting of the International Studies Association, Columbus, OH, 8-10 November 1990.