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Peter Andreas

John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Brown University

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.

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