Editorial Board Member
Distinguished Professor of International Security at American University
Cronin was a Marshall Scholar at Princeton University, earned a PhD from the University of Oxford, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She has been director of the core course on war and statecraft at the National War College, director of studies for the Changing Character of War Program at Oxford University, and specialist in terrorism at the Congressional Research Service. She has also served in the office of the Secretary of Defense for policy and frequently advises at senior levels. Cronin was chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Terrorism and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Called a “landmark study” by the New Yorker, Cronin’s best-known book, published in 2009, is How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns. Her latest book, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation, is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (2020), analyzes emerging technologies and devises a new framework for twenty-first-century military innovation. In November 2020, the book won the international Airey Neave Book Prize for “the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.”
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About Audrey Cronin
Distinguished Professor of International Security at American University
Cronin was a Marshall Scholar at Princeton University, earned a PhD from the University of Oxford, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She has been director of the core course on war and statecraft at the National War College, director of studies for the Changing Character of War Program at Oxford University, and specialist in terrorism at the Congressional Research Service. She has also served in the office of the Secretary of Defense for policy and frequently advises at senior levels. Cronin was chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Terrorism and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Called a “landmark study” by the New Yorker, Cronin’s best-known book, published in 2009, is How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns. Her latest book, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation, is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (2020), analyzes emerging technologies and devises a new framework for twenty-first-century military innovation. In November 2020, the book won the international Airey Neave Book Prize for “the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.”