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Audrey Kurth Cronin

AUDREY KURTH CRONIN is Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology. She is the author of How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns and Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists.

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Sinwar Is Dead, but Hamas Will Survive

His Death, However, Could Create an Opening for Peace

Audrey Kurth Cronin

October 19, 2024

Can Hamas Be Left to Defeat Itself?

Debating the Endgame in Gaza

Ophir Falk; Audrey Kurth Cronin

Letter Sept/Oct 2024

The Middle East’s Dangerous Escalation

A Conversation With Audrey Kurth Cronin, Marc Lynch, Dennis Ross, and Dana Stroul

Podcast August 7, 2024

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How Hamas Ends

A Strategy for Letting the Group Defeat Itself

Audrey Kurth Cronin

July/Aug 2024

Hamas’s Asymmetric Advantage

What Does It Mean to Defeat a Terrorist Group?

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Jan/Feb 2024

How Israel Can Win

Defeating Hamas Will Require a Strategy That Goes Beyond Revenge

Audrey Kurth Cronin

October 15, 2023

The Future of America’s Drone Campaign

Time for a Clean Break With a Failed Approach

Audrey Kurth Cronin

October 14, 2021

ISIS Is More Than a Terrorist Group

The Case for Treating It Like a State Sponsor

Audrey Kurth Cronin

March 23, 2016

ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group

Why Counterterrorism Won’t Stop the Latest Jihadist Threat

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Mar/Apr 2015

Drones Over Damascus

What Their Absence From the Syria Debate Means About Their Usefulness

Audrey Kurth Cronin

September 2, 2013

Why Drones Fail

When Tactics Drive Strategy

Audrey Kurth Cronin

July/Aug 2013

Why Branding the Haqqanis Terrorists Was a Mistake

The Downsides of Making Policy During a Campaign

Audrey Kurth Cronin

September 11, 2012

Why the Haqqani Network is Not on the Foreign Terrorist Organizations List

The Politics Of Naming and Shaming

Audrey Kurth Cronin

December 21, 2011