Email: audrey.cronin@politics.ox.ac.uk

Audrey Kurth Cronin was Academic Director of Studies for the Changing Character of War programme from September 2005 until July 2007. She came to Oxford University from the U.S. National War College, National Defense University, and left Oxford in July 2007 to return to the National War College where she takes up a full professorship.

Professor Cronin has also worked at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, where she advised Members of Congress and their staffs on terrorism matters. Prior to that she was on the faculty of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where she created and taught a long-standing graduate course on political violence and terrorism that was featured in the New York Times shortly after 9/11. She has twenty years’ teaching experience on matters relating to strategic thought and war, including faculty positions at the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University.

While at Oxford, Professor Cronin completed How Terrorism Ends: Lessons from the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Organizations, supported by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace. She also published the lead article in the Summer 2006 issue of International Security, entitled “How al-Qaida Ends.” In addition to the academic publications listed below, major studies for the U.S. Congress include “Al Qaeda after the Iraq Conflict” (2003), “Terrorists and Suicide Attacks” (2003), “Terrorist Motivations for Chemical and Biological Weapons Use” (2003), “Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (2004), and “Saudi Arabia and Terrorist Financing” (2004).

Recent Publications

Ending Terrorism: Lessons for Defeating Al-Qaeda, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Adelphi Paper #394 (London: Routledge, April 2008), 86 pages.

'How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups', in International Security, Summer 2006, Vol. 31, No. 1, Pages 7-48

'Cyber-Mobilization', in Parameters, Summer 2006, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2.

'Russia and Chechnya' in Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past, Robert J. Art & Louise Richardson (Eds.), (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006)

'Innovations in Twenty-first Century Terrorism', in The Oxford Forum, November 2005.

'Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy', Georgetown University Press, 2004 (author and co-editor).

'Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism', in International Security, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Winter 2002/2003), pp. 30-58.

'Rethinking Sovereignty: American Strategy in an Age of Terrorism', in Survival, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 119-139.