Carnegie Council

Neta C. Crawford is professor of political science and African American studies at Boston University.

Crawford is currently on the board of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS). She has also served as a member of the governing Council of the American Political Science Association; on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review; and on the Slavery and Justice Committee at Brown University, which examined Brown University's relationship to slavery and the slave trade.

Crawford's recent work on intervention, prevention, and U.S. military strategy appears in International Relations, Journal of Political Philosophy, and in Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, edited by Henry Shue and David Rodin (2007). She is the author of Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, Humanitarian Intervention (2002), which was co-winner of the 2003 Jervis-Schroeder Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on international history and politics.

Resources by this Author:

• The Real "Surge" of 2007: Non-Combatant Death in Iraq and Afghanistan
• The Slippery Slope to Preventive War [Full Text]
• Postmodern Ethics and a Critical Response [Abstract]

• Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention (2002).