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
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- BTPI releases new report on AI regulation
- OpenAI restructuring ‘natural consequence’ of AI arms race
- BTPI will research relationship between Bitcoin and financial freedom
- Reynolds Foundation commits $1.25M to fund Brooks School initiatives
- 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
- Musicologist and poet awarded Guggenheim fellowships
- 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
- H.R. McMaster to speak on America’s standing and security Dec. 8
- When Twitter fact-checks Trump’s tweets, it polarizes Americans even more, our research finds
- Pfizer vaccine efficacy could be a ‘game changer’
- The perils of letting social media titans correct misinformation
- Voter intimidation plot succeeds regardless of culprit
- Tulsa coffins reflect excavation of ‘uncomfortable truths’
- Efficacy, politics influence public trust in COVID-19 vaccine
- In linking COVID-19 apps, EU to face adoption, privacy risks
- Klarman Fellow Zhang examines tech policy through social science
- Experts: Acknowledge uncertainty in COVID communication
- 30 Arts & Sciences faculty honored with endowed professorships
- China’s global data security initiative is “wholly aspirational”
- How our current times are changing the curriculum
- Kreps: Social media helping to undermine democracy
- Graphene sensors find subtleties in magnetic fields
- TikTok ban reasonable given threat of Chinese surveillance
- PMA prof named new director of Milstein Program
- Good News and Bad News about COVID-19 Misinformation
- New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption
- Cornell Atkinson awards five more COVID-19 rapid grants
- Panel: Coordination is key to a world beyond COVID-19
- Google-Apple contact tracing model gains ground, centralized approach ‘doomed to fail’
- Surveillance for health: Safeguards needed
- Panel: Partisan politics, shifting powers shape impeachment
- Arts and Sciences announces first class of Klarman Fellows
- Cornell faculty, leadership begin to tackle grand challenges
- Global Grand Challenges event to spark faculty dialogue
- Milstein students welcomed to campus with BBQ, adventures
- War taxes put public's money where its troops are
- No, Trump can’t count on a hawk’s advantage in making peace with North Korea
- Kreps, Braddock named inaugural Milstein Faculty Fellows
- Americans feel a moral obligation to help humanitarian victims (like those in Syria) with military force
- Should the U.S. try to deter cyberattacks by promising nuclear retaliation?
- Congress keeps quiet on U.S. drone policy - and that's a big problem
- Americans are united on retaliating against Russian cyberattacks
- Grad students talk about research opportunities
- Doctoral students present work at Stockholm conference
