NETA C. CRAWFORD
Department of Political Science, Boston University
232 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215
office: (617) 353-4040
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CURRENT POSITIONS:
Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Boston University since July 2005.
Board of Directors Member, The Academic Council of the United Nations System, 2006-2009.
Ethics Committee Member, American Political Science Association, 2006-2009.
Member, Nominating Committee, International Studies Association, 2009-2011.
Advisory Group Member, Oxford Research Group project Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict since January 2008.
Advisory Board Member for the Project on Defense Alternatives, Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA, since 1995.
Advisory Board Member for Praxis, an Institute for Social Justice, since 2002; Board of Directors member, since 2006.
Board Member, Proteus Action League, Amherst, MA since November 2008.
Treasurer and Member of the Board, Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2001- present.
International Panel of Editorial Advisers and Consultants, Member, International Encyclopedia of Political Science (forthcoming from Congressional Quarterly) since 2005.
Member, International Editorial Board, Security and Governance book series, Routledge Press from 2006.
PRIOR ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS:
Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University July 2005 - July 2008.
Associate Professor (Research), Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, from September 2001-July 2005.
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.
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Editorial Board Member, American Political Science Review, September 2001-September 2007.
President's Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2004-2006.
Governing Council member of the American Political Science Association, November 2004-November 2006.
Executive Committee Member of the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review, June 2002-November 2004.
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 and Security; US Foreign Policy; Economic Sanctions; Humanitarian Intervention; Ethics; and International Organization; South African Foreign and Military Policy; Political Psychology; Critical Theory; Qualitative Research Methods.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS:
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.
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
Neta C. Crawford, America's Long War: Beyond the Bush Doctrine and the War on Terror (mss).
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.
Forthcoming Articles and book chapters:
"No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility," Charles Beitz and Robert Goodin eds., Oxford University Press,
"Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity," in Toni Erskine, ed., Responding to Delinquent Institutions: Blaming, Punishing and Rehabilitating Collective Moral Agents in International Relations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
"Decolonization through Trusteeship: the Legacy of Ralph Bunche," in Edmund Keller and Robert Hill, eds., 'Trustee for the Human Community': Ralph J. Bunche and the Decolonization of Africa.
ARTICLES in Scholarly Journals and Books:
"Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics," Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming) 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).
"The Slippery Slope to Preventive War," in Joel H. Rosenthal and Chrisitian 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," 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.
BOOK REVIEWS in Academic Journals:
Review of Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess, South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction, for TheInternational Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 39, no. 3 (2006) pp. 507-509.
Review of Rodger A. Payne and Nayef H. Samhat, Democratizing Global Politics: Discourse Norms, International Regimes, and Political Community, in Perspectives on Politics, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2006) pp. 235-236.
Review of Daniel C. Thomas, The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism for the Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring 2003) pp. 109-111.
Review of Courtney Jung, Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition, for Political Science Quarterly, vol. 116, no. 4 (Winter 2001-2002) pp. 671-672.
Review of George E. Shambaugh, States, Firms and Power: Successful Sanctions in United States Foreign Policy, for Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 3 (Fall 2000) pp. 486-488.
Review of David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro, eds., Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics, for Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 14 (2000) pp. 186-188.
Review of Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, for the American Political Science Review, vol. 93, no. 4 (December 1999) pp. 1020-1021.
NEWSPAPERS, POPULAR JOURNALS, etc:
"The Dangerous Leap: Preventive War," in Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung, eds., Lessons From Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2008), pp. 12-18.
"Hayward Rose Alker, Jr." in Memoriam, PS: Political Science and Politics vol. XLI, no. 1 (January 2008) pp. 220-222.
Neta C. Crawford, Catherine Lutz, Robert Jay Lifton, Judith L. Herman, and Howard Zinn, "The Real "Surge" of 2007: Non-Combatant Death in Iraq and Afghanistan," Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 22 January 2008
"Cold War Casualties: How Our Claim of Victory Distorts American Foreign Policy," Review of Ellen Schrecker, ed. Cold War Triumphalism, in Boston Review, February/March 2005 pp. 35-37.
"The U.S. Needs More Boots on the Ground," The Providence Journal, 31 October 2003, op ed (also syndicated).
"The Sky is Always Falling," Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2003, op ed (also syndicated).
"Wrong War, Any Time," Newsday (Long Island), 16 March 2003, op ed.
"The Best Defense: The Problem with Bush's 'Preemptive' War Doctrine," Boston Review, vol.. 28, no. 1 (February/March 2003) pp. 20-23.
"A Pre-emptive War Environment — Bush's Perilous Schlieffen Plan," The Providence Journal, 7 December 2002, op ed.
"A Useful — Often Forgotten — Analogy to Iraq," Christian Science Monitor, 21 November 2002, op ed.
Letter to the editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 January 2002, on academic freedom and the war on terrorism.
Letter to the editor, The New York Times, 15 January 2001 on US military assistance to Africa.
Letter to the editor, The New York Times, 1 January 2000 on humanitarian intervention in the 21st century.
Letter to the editor, The New York Times, 25 April 1999 on the roots of the Kosovo war.
"Broad Sanctions Against Iraq have Failed; Let's Try a Smarter Approach," The Boston Globe, 28 January 1999, op-ed, p. A19.
"The Politics of Breast Cancer," a review of five books on cancer for Sojourner: The Woman's Forum, May 1998.
Thomas G. Weiss and Neta Crawford, "A Humane Way to Lessen Iraqi Suffering," The Boston Globe, 24 December 1997, op-ed, p. A11.
"More Military Than We Need: 'Wild Card' Insurance and Unfair Fights" comment on the US Quadrennial Defense Review for the QDR web page of the Project on Defense Alternatives June 1997 (on-line
"Nicht todlich, aber teur: Bilanz von fast fünf Jahrzehnten Santionen gegen Südafrika," (roughly translated: Not Lethal But Expensive: Weighing Almost 50 years of Sanctions Against South Africa) Der Überblich published in Hamburg, Germany June 1996 pp. 49-52.
"Out of the Closet and Into a Straight Medal Jacket?" Sojourner: The Women's Forum, June 1993. Reprinted in Karen Kahn, ed., Frontline Feminism: Essays from Sojourner's First 20 Years (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press, 1995) pp. 481-485.
Letter to the editor, The New York Times, 18 August 1994 on political conditions in Africa.
"Commentary" on the Collective Security forum, in Boston Review, October 1993.
UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"Man in the Mirror: Human Nature and World Politics," Aberystwyth University, Wales for the King of Thought Conference, a festschrift for Kenneth Waltz, 16 September 2008.
"Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) all the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics," at Oxford University for the conference Arguing Global Governance 21 June 2008.
"Human Nature and World Politics: Ecce Hayward Alker's Homo Politicus as Homo Humanitatis," for the conference "Uncovering the Ethical: Recovering Meaning in International Relations Scholarship," Brown University, 6 June 2008.
"A Future History of the End of War: A Longue Durée Argument about Argumentation," City College of New York, Conference on the End of War in honor of Randall Forsberg, 5 May 2008.
"Systemic Military Atrocity," International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco 28 March 2008.
"No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility," Stanford University Political Theory Seminar, 22 February 2008.
"Emergence of Global Identity," Harvard University, Radcliffe Seminar 10 February 2006.
"The False Promise of Collective Security Through Preventive War," 6 June 2005, Oxford University Leverhulme Program on the Changing Character of War, Oxford England.
"Empire of Insecurity: Pax Americana and the Institutionalization of Fear in US Foreign Policy," for the 26th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Boston, MA, 6-9 July 2003.
"The Scope and Limits of Persuasion: Argument All the Way Down," for the European University Workshop "Arguing and Persuasion in International Relations and European Affairs" Florence, Italy, 8-10 April 2002
"Problems and Prospects of Discourse Ethics: Rationality and Communicative Competence," for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 25 March 2002.
"Notes on 10 Dilemmas of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding," for a workshop on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 26 June 2000.
"Postmodern Ethics and the Critical Challenge" for the Watson Institute for International Studies Conference "Beyond Survival" 28-29 March 1997, Brown University. A different version appears in Ethics & International Affairs in 1998.
"Changing Norms of Intervention: An Argument About Arguments" for the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1 April 1994.
"Rethinking Meta-Theoretical Issues in International Relations: From Levels to Spheres." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association — West, Los Angeles, CA, 1 November 1991.
"MEAN State Syndrome: An Ir/Rational Theory of Force-Prone Foreign Policy" for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, CA, 30 August -2 September 1990.
"Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Rapid Deployment Force" for the Howard University Conference of African-American scholars on "National Security and the Black Community," Washington, DC October 1983.
"The United States Nuclear Bomber Force, 1945-1954." A winning paper presented at the Ivy League (student) Conference "Issues of Nuclear Arms," Dartmouth College, May 1983.
SAMPLE of INVITED LECTURES and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Systemic Military Atrocity in Iraq and Afghanistan," CUNY Graduate School, New York, 12 March 2008.
"Caring about Systemic Military Atrocity in Iraq and Afghanistan" 22 February 2008, Stanford University, Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and CISAC.
"Hayward Alker and Human Nature, " International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 27 March 2008.
"Systemic Military Atrocity," for the Mass Violence Seminar, Harvard University, 7 March 2008.
"Moral Responsibility for Military Atrocity in Iraq and Afghanistan," University of California, Berkeley, 4 December 2007.