Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity and Other Professional Contributions, School of International Service, American University

Finalist, Lionel Gelber Award

Neave Book Prize, Airey Neave Trust

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American Historical Association : Member

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US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence

How Private Tech Companies Are Reshaping Great Power Competition

Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists

Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda (Adelphi Book 394)

How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy

Responding to Terrorism: A Batch from International Security (MIT Press Batches)

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Audrey Kurth Cronin is the Trustees Professor of Security and Technology Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology.  She is the award-winning author of Power to the People (Oxford University Press, 2020) and How Terrorism Ends (Princeton University Press 2009).  Her research explores how governments and private actors use accessible technologies such as robotics, cyber weapons, additive manufacturing (“3-D printing”), synthetic biology, autonomous systems, and various forms of artificial intelligence.  She analyzes why some lethal technologies spread (and others do not), which ones to focus on, and how to prevent individuals and private groups from adapting them for malevolent ends.  She also focuses on military technological innovation, especially the contrast between 20th century military innovation and the far more rapid innovation and diffusion driven by commercial actors today.

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Audrey Kurth Cronin

Trustees Professor of Security and Technology Director, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Audrey Kurth Cronin's research explores how governments and private actors use accessible technologies.

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After Alfred Nobel developed dynamite, his invention reshaped the world—literally.  From mining to infrastructure projects, dynamite proved essential to the building of the modern world.  But it also changed political violence—both on battlefields and in the streets where the first wave of modern terrorists adopted the explosive as a weapon of choice.  Audrey Kurth Cronin says we have work to do to manage the new age of open technological innovation before it gets ahead of us with potentially destructive consequences. 

Cronin’s career has combined academic positions and government service.  She joined the faculty of American University’s School of International Service in August 2016 and previously served as Director of the Center for Security Policy Studies, and Director of the International Security Program at George Mason University.  Before that, she was a faculty member and director of the core course on War and Statecraft at the U.S. National War College, after serving as Academic Director of Studies for the Oxford/Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War at Nuffield College at Oxford University.  She was also the Specialist in Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service, advising Members of Congress in the aftermath of 9/11.  She has also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy; the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and the American Embassy in Moscow.  Her latest book is “Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists,” which explores the risks and opportunities of 21st century emerging technologies.

November 11, 2019: Audrey Kurth Cronin

George Mason professor Audrey Cronin says that ISIS is structure more like a state so using counterterrorism or counterinsurgency strategies against them is ill-advised.

This Carnegie Council event took place on December 9, 2014. For complete audio and transcript and video clips, go to: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20141209/index.html

Audrey Kurth Cronin: Counterterrorism Won’t Work Against ISIS

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