Overview
Sarah Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and the Director of Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy. Her teaching and research focus on the intersection of technology, international politics, and national security. You can find her CV here.
She has written seven books: Social Media and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy (2018), Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016), Drone Warfare (2014, co-authored with John Kaag) and Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War (Oxford 2011). Two books are forthcoming: International Relations (Pearson, 2025, with Jon Pevehouse and Edward Mansfield) and Checking the Costs of War: Sources of Accountability in U.S. Foreign Policy (University of Chicago Press, co-edited with Doug Kriner).
Beyond these books, Dr. Kreps's work has appeared in a number of academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Politics, International Security, Foreign Affairs and the Harvard Business Review. Her research and insights are frequently featured in international media outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, CNBC, and CNN.
Dr. Kreps is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a BA from Harvard University, MSc from Oxford, and PhD from Georgetown and previously served as an active-duty officer in the United States Air Force.
Research Focus
- Emerging technology
- National security
- International politics
In the news
- OpenAI restructuring ‘natural consequence’ of AI arms race
- Reynolds Foundation commits $1.25M to fund Brooks School initiatives
- BTPI will research relationship between Bitcoin and financial freedom
- Brooks School Tech Policy Institute focuses on intersection of national security and tech policy
- Prof. Sarah Kreps featured in new ‘Military Mysteries’ TV series
- The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race
- OpenAI board may have won the battle – but lost the war
- Google requires disclosure for AI in election ads
- Kreps: Generative AI holds promise, peril for democracies
- Vaccine campaign research highlights the power of individual self-interest
- New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell
- TikTok fines ‘a potentially fruitful alternative’ to bans or lack of regulation
- Whole-message AI communication seen as more useful
- Possible TikTok ban would deal ‘crushing blow’ to creators
- Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails
- Drones in modern war: evolutionary or revolutionary?
- The promise and perils of the new space boom
- U.S. tech restrictions on China could backfire without ally support
- Student team will seek public’s views on planetary defense
- Cornell Atkinson awards $1.4 million to new sustainability projects
- Learn & travel with Cornell alumni, faculty this summer
- Digital focus of Asia trade plan will help U.S. companies, allies
- Einaudi awards fund global research and activities
- A&S student named Carnegie Fellow
- Bipartisan Policy Review spotlights U.S. foreign policy options
- Military aid to Ukraine comes amid ‘diplomatic dance’ on world stage
- International OK shapes public perceptions of drone warfare
- To support Ukraine, the West must unleash the full power of the IMF and World Bank
- Doctoral student’s work featured in Oxford Handbook chapter
- Panel: Drone warfare is increasingly sophisticated, deadly
- Countering Russian misinformation a ‘comparatively easy’ problem to solve
- Fact checks effectively counter COVID misinformation
- American perception of Olympics sabotage claim ‘doesn’t matter’ to China
- ‘Saber rattling’ over Ukraine highlights the region’s complicated past
- Examining the impact of drone warfare on global world order
- What happens now to U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan?
- Cornell informs, takes action on Afghanistan
- Vaccine acceptance higher in developing nations than U.S.
- EU lacks leverage in pushing privacy standards on Amazon, Microsoft
- Klarman Fellow Zhang named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
- $2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research
- ‘Who is guarding Facebook’s guardians?’ Lawmakers can step up oversight
- Skipping the second shot could prolong pandemic, study finds
- Event examines the ethics, politics and future of AI
- Panel to examine the intersection of artificial intelligence with ethics, politics and policy
- Could AI counter vaccine disinformation?
- Tech Policy Lab launches with focus on AI
- In limiting political content, Facebook risks advancing censorship narrative
- Study: Americans skeptical of COVID-19 contact tracing apps
- COVID Summit: Social science perspectives