Neta Crawford

Neta Crawford is the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the University of Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. She specializes in war ethics, normative change, climate change, and the intersection of military policy with environmental security. Her research emphasizes the human and ecological costs of warfare, including greenhouse gas emissions from military activities.

Her academic career includes notable accolades such as the British Academy and American Academy of Arts & Sciences fellowships (2023) and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association (2018). She co-founded the Costs of War Project at Brown University, which quantifies the human and financial toll of US post-9/11 wars.

• Research Themes: Climate Security, Military Emissions, Ethics of Warfare, US Foreign Policy, Peace Movements

Recent publications include The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War (2022), which examines the US military's role as a major greenhouse gas emitter, and To Make Heaven Weep (in progress), analyzing civilian impacts of American military strategies.

• Awards: Grawemeyer Award (2023), American Book Award (2023), APSA Book Award (2003)

Crawford advises five graduate students and has been featured in media outlets like The Washington Post, The Guardian, and BBC Radio 4. Her work bridges academia and public policy, advocating for transparency in military environmental impacts and ethical foreign policy frameworks.