Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. Previously, Andreas was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University, a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security. He holds an MA and PhD in government from Cornell University and a BA in political science from Swarthmore College.

Andreas is the author, co-author, or co-editor of a dozen books. These include Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (Oxford University Press, 2013); Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo (Cornell University Press, 2008); Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2006); Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Cornell University Press, 2000, 2nd ed. 2009; 3rd ed. 2022); Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2010); Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2020); and most recently, The Illicit Global Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2025).

His current book project, Contraband Capitalism: How Smugglers Made the Modern World, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Andreas received the 2024 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.