Neta C. Crawford

Neta Crawford is a Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Prior to this, she was the Montague Burton Professor at University of Oxford. She was also previously a Professor of Political Science and the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University.

Her research focuses on war, ethics, normative change, emotions in world politics, and climate change. She received the Distinguished Scholar award from the International Ethics section of the International Studies Association in 2018. 

Crawford has authored several books, including - recently - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War (2022), Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post‑9/11 Wars (2013), and Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, Humanitarian Intervention (2002).  

Crawford is a co-founder and co-director of the Costs of War Project, based at Brown University.