Audrey Kurth Cronin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Kurth Cronin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey Kurth |
| FAMILY NAME | Cronin |
| SIGNATURE | CRONIN A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6889-3480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence
What should the future of US counter-terrorism policy be? This article reviews American strategic successes and mistakes of the past 20 years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drifting objectives, public intolerance of risk and a misguided counter-insurgency approach to counter-terrorism all yielded an undifferentiated global campaign of attrition that the United States could never win. As the years passed, tactics eclipsed strategic t…
Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Military perception takes on new meaning in this study of the technological evolution of remote visual intelligence. Antoine Bousquet describes modern military power as a search for the ability to visualize and dominate at a distance. His book explores what he calls “the martial gaze,” or the capacity to see and target anything, anywhere in the world. The book opens with a chapter on the invention of linear perspective during the Italian Renaissa…
Governing from the skies: A global history of aerial bombing
Thomas Hippler finds the origins of today’s interminable conflicts in the experimental use of air power by colonial armies in the Middle East and North Africa a century ago. His core argument is th
The Isis Threat to U.S. National Security: Policy Choices
I want to briefly go through my assessment of where we are in the fight against the Islamic State, how we got here, where we're going, and the lessons we should take from our experience thus far.Until last year, I was deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combatting terrorism, where I worked on these issues on a daily basis and saw the evolution of our policies and our approach towards the Islamic State throughout that …
Threats of Force: International Law and Strategy
Drone Warfare
Journal Article Drone Warfare Get access Drone Warfare by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2014. 195 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $19.95. Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin George Mason University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages 549–550, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12380 Published: 16 September 2015
The ‘War on Terrorism’: What Does it Mean to Win
The war on al-Qaeda and its affiliates appears to be endless but every war must end. Winding down the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq has been difficult, but both were embedded in what was then called the ‘war on terrorism.’ What does ‘success’ in that war mean? With the death of bin Laden and the increase in drone operations, how far is the US from achieving it? Can this war end? The article analyzes the ongoing US response to the 9/11 attacks…
Thinking Long on Afghanistan: Could it be Neutralized
U.S. Grand Strategy and Counterterrorism
The evolution of counterterrorism: Will Tactics Trump Strategy
Counterterrorism efforts over the past five years have yielded important progress against Al-Qaeda abroad, even with heightened anxiety about the threat of attacks at home. There was certainly no ‘clash of civilizations’; violent Salafism engendered a muscular backlash in Muslim-majority countries, which threatened Al-Qaeda's ability to recruit and even survive. At the same time, the policies of major states became more effective and better align…
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end--and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins. Only by understanding the common ways in which terrorist movements have died out or been eradicated in th…
Conception, criticism, contribution: Advancing the research agenda
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda
Introduction 1 The Strategies of Terrorism 2 Historical Patterns in Ending Terrorism 3 Ending Al-Qaeda Conclusion Notes
Cyber-Mobilization: The New "Levée en Masse"
T he means and ends of mass mobilization are changing, bypassing the tra- ditional state-centered approach that was the hallmark of the French Revolution and leaving advanced Western democracies merely to react to the results.Today's dynamic social, economic, and political transitions are as important to war as were the changes at the end of the 18th century that Clausewitz observed.Most important is the 21st century's levée en masse, a mass netw…
How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups
Al-Qaida will end. The fear that a small terrorist organization with a loose network has transformed itself into a protracted global ideological struggle without an end in sight is misguided. There are centuries of experience with modern terrorist movements, many bearing important parallels with al-Qaida; yet the lessons arising from the demise of these groups are little studied. Unfortunately, terrorist organizations in their final stages are of…
Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism
January 01 2003 Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Online ISS…
Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism
A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism
Journal Article A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism Get access A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism by Glenn E. Schweitzer with Carole Dorsch Schweitzer. Cambridge, MA, Perseus Publishing, 2002. 368 pp. Paper, $17.00. Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 516…
Rethinking Sovereignty: American Strategy in the Age of Terrorism
Terrorism is an act of political violence aimed not only at innocent civilians, but at the legitimacy of the state. Twenty-first century terrorism is gradually shifting away from direct state sponsorship and toward more amorphous groups, often having access to state resources but less and less likely to be under the control of the state itself. In an increasingly globalised environment, the traditional state-centric means of responding to terrori…
Clashing perspectives on the Balkans in the post-Milosevic era: New wine in old bottles
Misha Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804–1999 (New York: Viking Penguin 1999). Sabrina Petra Ramet, Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War of Kosovo (3rd ed.) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1999). Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia‐Hercegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 1999)
The realistic engagement of China
(1996). The realistic engagement of China. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 141-169
East-West Negotiations over Austria in 1949: Turning-Point in the Cold War
With the exception of 1955, when the Austrian State Treaty was actually signed, the year 1949 was the most important period in the great power negotiations over Austria's fate. After two years of failure to reach agreement among the four occupying powers, frustrated largely by the intransigence of the Soviet government, a change occurred which marked a watershed in the negotiations. At the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers in June 1949, Sovie…
How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups
Al-Qaida will end. The fear that a small terrorist organization with a loose network has transformed itself into a protracted global ideological struggle without an end in sight is misguided. There are centuries of experience with modern terrorist movements, many bearing important parallels with al-Qaida; yet the lessons arising from the demise of these groups are little studied. Unfortunately, terrorist organizations in their final stages are of…
Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism
January 01 2003 Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Online ISS…
Governing from the skies: A global history of aerial bombing
Thomas Hippler finds the origins of today’s interminable conflicts in the experimental use of air power by colonial armies in the Middle East and North Africa a century ago. His core argument is th
U.S. Grand Strategy and Counterterrorism
The realistic engagement of China
(1996). The realistic engagement of China. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 141-169
The ‘War on Terrorism’: What Does it Mean to Win
The war on al-Qaeda and its affiliates appears to be endless but every war must end. Winding down the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq has been difficult, but both were embedded in what was then called the ‘war on terrorism.’ What does ‘success’ in that war mean? With the death of bin Laden and the increase in drone operations, how far is the US from achieving it? Can this war end? The article analyzes the ongoing US response to the 9/11 attacks…
The evolution of counterterrorism: Will Tactics Trump Strategy
Counterterrorism efforts over the past five years have yielded important progress against Al-Qaeda abroad, even with heightened anxiety about the threat of attacks at home. There was certainly no ‘clash of civilizations’; violent Salafism engendered a muscular backlash in Muslim-majority countries, which threatened Al-Qaeda's ability to recruit and even survive. At the same time, the policies of major states became more effective and better align…
Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence
What should the future of US counter-terrorism policy be? This article reviews American strategic successes and mistakes of the past 20 years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drifting objectives, public intolerance of risk and a misguided counter-insurgency approach to counter-terrorism all yielded an undifferentiated global campaign of attrition that the United States could never win. As the years passed, tactics eclipsed strategic t…
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Military perception takes on new meaning in this study of the technological evolution of remote visual intelligence. Antoine Bousquet describes modern military power as a search for the ability to visualize and dominate at a distance. His book explores what he calls “the martial gaze,” or the capacity to see and target anything, anywhere in the world. The book opens with a chapter on the invention of linear perspective during the Italian Renaissa…
East-West Negotiations over Austria in 1949: Turning-Point in the Cold War
With the exception of 1955, when the Austrian State Treaty was actually signed, the year 1949 was the most important period in the great power negotiations over Austria's fate. After two years of failure to reach agreement among the four occupying powers, frustrated largely by the intransigence of the Soviet government, a change occurred which marked a watershed in the negotiations. At the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers in June 1949, Sovie…
The realistic engagement of China
(1996). The realistic engagement of China. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 141-169
Clashing perspectives on the Balkans in the post-Milosevic era: New wine in old bottles
Misha Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804–1999 (New York: Viking Penguin 1999). Sabrina Petra Ramet, Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War of Kosovo (3rd ed.) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1999). Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia‐Hercegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 1999)
Rethinking Sovereignty: American Strategy in the Age of Terrorism
Terrorism is an act of political violence aimed not only at innocent civilians, but at the legitimacy of the state. Twenty-first century terrorism is gradually shifting away from direct state sponsorship and toward more amorphous groups, often having access to state resources but less and less likely to be under the control of the state itself. In an increasingly globalised environment, the traditional state-centric means of responding to terrori…
Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism
January 01 2003 Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Audrey Kurth Cronin Specialist in International Terrorism at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress Online ISS…
Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism
A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism
Journal Article A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism Get access A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism by Glenn E. Schweitzer with Carole Dorsch Schweitzer. Cambridge, MA, Perseus Publishing, 2002. 368 pp. Paper, $17.00. Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 516…
Cyber-Mobilization: The New "Levée en Masse"
T he means and ends of mass mobilization are changing, bypassing the tra- ditional state-centered approach that was the hallmark of the French Revolution and leaving advanced Western democracies merely to react to the results.Today's dynamic social, economic, and political transitions are as important to war as were the changes at the end of the 18th century that Clausewitz observed.Most important is the 21st century's levée en masse, a mass netw…
How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups
Al-Qaida will end. The fear that a small terrorist organization with a loose network has transformed itself into a protracted global ideological struggle without an end in sight is misguided. There are centuries of experience with modern terrorist movements, many bearing important parallels with al-Qaida; yet the lessons arising from the demise of these groups are little studied. Unfortunately, terrorist organizations in their final stages are of…
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda
Introduction 1 The Strategies of Terrorism 2 Historical Patterns in Ending Terrorism 3 Ending Al-Qaeda Conclusion Notes
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end--and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins. Only by understanding the common ways in which terrorist movements have died out or been eradicated in th…
Conception, criticism, contribution: Advancing the research agenda
The evolution of counterterrorism: Will Tactics Trump Strategy
Counterterrorism efforts over the past five years have yielded important progress against Al-Qaeda abroad, even with heightened anxiety about the threat of attacks at home. There was certainly no ‘clash of civilizations’; violent Salafism engendered a muscular backlash in Muslim-majority countries, which threatened Al-Qaeda's ability to recruit and even survive. At the same time, the policies of major states became more effective and better align…
U.S. Grand Strategy and Counterterrorism
Thinking Long on Afghanistan: Could it be Neutralized
The ‘War on Terrorism’: What Does it Mean to Win
The war on al-Qaeda and its affiliates appears to be endless but every war must end. Winding down the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq has been difficult, but both were embedded in what was then called the ‘war on terrorism.’ What does ‘success’ in that war mean? With the death of bin Laden and the increase in drone operations, how far is the US from achieving it? Can this war end? The article analyzes the ongoing US response to the 9/11 attacks…
Threats of Force: International Law and Strategy
Drone Warfare
Journal Article Drone Warfare Get access Drone Warfare by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2014. 195 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $19.95. Audrey Kurth Cronin Audrey Kurth Cronin George Mason University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages 549–550, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12380 Published: 16 September 2015
The Isis Threat to U.S. National Security: Policy Choices
I want to briefly go through my assessment of where we are in the fight against the Islamic State, how we got here, where we're going, and the lessons we should take from our experience thus far.Until last year, I was deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combatting terrorism, where I worked on these issues on a daily basis and saw the evolution of our policies and our approach towards the Islamic State throughout that …
Governing from the skies: A global history of aerial bombing
Thomas Hippler finds the origins of today’s interminable conflicts in the experimental use of air power by colonial armies in the Middle East and North Africa a century ago. His core argument is th
Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Military perception takes on new meaning in this study of the technological evolution of remote visual intelligence. Antoine Bousquet describes modern military power as a search for the ability to visualize and dominate at a distance. His book explores what he calls “the martial gaze,” or the capacity to see and target anything, anywhere in the world. The book opens with a chapter on the invention of linear perspective during the Italian Renaissa…
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence
What should the future of US counter-terrorism policy be? This article reviews American strategic successes and mistakes of the past 20 years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drifting objectives, public intolerance of risk and a misguided counter-insurgency approach to counter-terrorism all yielded an undifferentiated global campaign of attrition that the United States could never win. As the years passed, tactics eclipsed strategic t…
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves
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