Political Science Faculty

Timothy Crawford

Professor

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Timothy Crawford

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 230

Telephone: 617-552-4171

Email: timothy.crawford@bc.edu

Education

  • A.B., San Diego State University
  • M.A., University of San Diego
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

International Relations Theory; International Security; U.S. Foreign Policy; United Nations

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Timothy W. Crawford teaches courses on international security, causes of war, the United Nations, and intelligence. His research interests include alliance politics, coercive diplomacy, and intelligence cooperation. His current projects focus on wedge strategies and dividing alliances in great power politics, and on the life cycles of military alliances.

His new books are: International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

The Power to Divide: Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition, Cornell University Press, 2021.聽

He is also the author of Pivotal Deterrence: Third Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell, 2003), which was the winner of the 2003 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. He is also co-editor with Alan J. Kuperman of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).

Before joining the 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College, Crawford taught courses at Columbia University and in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton University鈥檚 Center of International Studies, and on Harvard University鈥檚 Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, and was a Council on Foreign Relations term member.

Publication Highlight

鈥淎rms Control as Wedge Strategy: How Arms Limitation Deals Divide Alliances,鈥� (w/Khang Vu),聽International Security聽46, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 91-129.

鈥淗ow to Distance Russia from China,鈥澛燱ashington Quarterly聽44, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 175-194.

The Power to Divide: Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition,聽Cornell University Press, 2021.

鈥淚ntelligence Cooperation.鈥澛燨xford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. 2019.

"The Strategy of Coercive Isolation." In聽Coercion: The Power to Hurt, edited by Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Review of Diane Pfundstein Chamberlain, Cheap Threats: Why the United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States in H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable, Vol. 10, no. 21 (2018): 5-13.

Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Internal War, co-edited w/ Alan J. Kuperman (Routledge, 2006).

Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell University Press, Studies in Security Affairs, 2003). Winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award.

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