Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves
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Audrey Kurth Cronin Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology (CMIST), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USAAudrey Kurth Cronin is Trustees Professor of International Security and Technology and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University.Cronin’s best-known book is How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (Princeton, 2009), which the New Yorker called a “landmark study.” Her latest book, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (Oxford, 2020), examines accessible new technologies (robotics, autonomous systems, AI) and devises a framework for analyzing their risks and benefits. It was short-listed for the Lionel Gelber prize and won the 2020 Neave prize.Cronin was a Marshall Scholar from Princeton, earned a DPhil from Oxford, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. 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. She was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Terrorism and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.