Areas of Interest: Borders and smuggling, transnational crime and crime control; political economy of conflict and intervention.
Peter Andreas is professor of Political Science and International Studies.
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 eight books. These include, 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, second edition 2009); and Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2010). He has also written for a wide range of scholarly and policy publications, including International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Nation. Other writings include congressional testimonies and op-eds in national newspapers.
He is currently researching and writing a book on the politics of smuggling in American history, tentatively titled, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (under contract with Oxford University Press).
His CV is available here.
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