Neta Crawford

CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS / STATEMENT OF VIEWS

Neta Crawford is Associate Professor (research) of international studies at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies where she runs the global ethics project. She recently resigned her position as associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently on the editorial board and executive committee of the American Political Science Review and a member of the Committee on Slavery and Justice at Brown which examines the university's relationship to slavery and the slave trade.

Her research interests include international relations theory, normative theory, foreign policy decision-making, African foreign and military policy, sanctions, peace movements, discourse ethics, research design, utopian science fiction, and emotion. Her Ph.D. is from MIT. Her BA is from Brown University where her independent concentration was "The War System and Alternatives to Militarism."

Crawford is the author of Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002) which was co-winner of the 2003 APSA International History and Politics section Jervis and Schroeder Award for best book. She is co-editor of How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (MacMillan, 1999). Her articles have been published in International Organization, Security Studies, Perspectives on Politics, International Security, Ethics & International Affairs, Press/Politics, Africa Today, and most recently, in the current issues of the Qualitative Methods section newsletter, Orbis, and the Naval War College Review.

Crawford does community and professional service related to her research interests. She is a member of the advisory board of the Project on Defense Alternatives, based in Cambridge, MA. In 2000, she co-organized a research meeting in South Africa for the SSRC of young African and North American scholars of security so that both sides could get to know each other, and stimulate each other's research. She has appeared on radio and TV and written op-eds on U.S. foreign policy and international relations for newspapers including the Boston Globe, Newsday (Long Island), The Christian Science Monitor, and the LA Times.

Crawford became a political scientist because she wants to make the world a better place. Of course, APSA is not the "world" but only a small part of it. She views participation in the APSA Council as part of the larger ongoing effort to make APSA and the discipline better - more inclusive, relevant, effective, and engaged in contemporary problems facing political scientists and the world.