Tim Crawford

Timothy W. Crawford is assistant professor of political science at Boston College, where he teaches courses on international security, intelligence, and the United Nations. He is the author of Pivotal Deterrence: Third Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell, 2003), winner of the 2003 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award; and editor (with Alan J. Kuperman) of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His research interests include coercive diplomacy, alliance politics, international intelligence cooperation, and executive power in U.S. foreign policy. Before joining Boston College, Crawford taught courses at Columbia University and the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton University's Center of International Studies, and Harvard University's Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, and he is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Crawford received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.