Neta C. Crawford

Montague Burton Professor, University of Oxford
Co-Founder, Costs of War

Neta C. Crawford is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press, 2022). Crawford is also the author of three other books, "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars" (2013), "Soviet Military Aircraft" (1987) and "Argument and Change in World Politics" (2002), named Best Book in International History and Politics by the American Political Science Association. She has written more than two dozen peer reviewed articles on issues of war and peace. Dr. Crawford has served on the governing Board of the Academic Council of the United Nations System and on the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Crawford was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2023.


SEE PAPERS >
Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 (2023)
The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars (2021)
Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones (2021)
Afghanistan's Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020 (2020)
Human Costs of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones (2019)
Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War (2019)
United States Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2019: $5.9 Trillion Spent and Obligated (2018)
Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency (2018)
US Budgetary Costs of Wars through 2016: $4.79 Trillion and Counting (2016)
Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid-2016 (2016)
War Related Death, Injury and Displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014 (2015)
US Costs of Wars through 2014: $4.4 Trillion and Counting (2014)
Civilian Death and Injury in the Iraq War, 2003-2013 (2013)
Civilians Killed in US Operations in Yemen (2012)
War Related Death and Injury in Pakistan 2004-2011 (2011)
Civilian Death and Injury in Iraq 2003-2011 (2011)
Civilian Death and Injury in Afghanistan, 2001-2011 (2011)
Assessing the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars: The Dead and Wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, 2001-2011 (2011)

Areas of Interest: International relations theory, normative theory, foreign policy decision making, sanctions, peace movements, discourse ethics, post-conflict peacebuilding, research design, utopian science fiction, and emotion.