Neta Crawford Professor Office: PLS 313C Phone: 617.353.4040 E-mail: crawfor@bu.edu Education: Ph.D. & MA, MIT; BA, Brown University Areas of Specialization: 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.

Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science and African American Studies where her teaching focuses on international ethics and normative change.  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.

Her research interests include international relations theory, normative theory, foreign policy decisionmaking, abolition of slavery, African foreign and military policy, sanctions, peace movements, discourse ethics, post-conflict peacebuilding, research design, utopian science fiction, and emotion. She is the author of Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002) which was a co-winner of the 2003 American Political Science Association Jervis and Schroeder Award  for best book in International History and Politics.  She is co-editor of How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (St. Martin's, 1999). Her articles have been published in books and scholarly journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy; International Organization; Security Studies;  Perspectives on Politics;  International Security; Ethics & International Affairs; Press/Politics; Africa Today; Naval War College Review; Orbis; and,Qualitative Methods. Crawford 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 Los Angeles Times.

Crawford has a Ph.D.  in political science from MIT and a bachelor of arts from Brown University.  At Brown her independent  concentration was "The War System and Alternatives to Militarism." Her senior thesis was on the  genesis and effects of military rule in Ghana from 1960-1984.

Professor Crawford regularly teaches the following courses:

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