Border Report: Officials Hope Border Travel Restrictions Protect 'the Greater Good' (Peter Andreas cited)
March 24, 2020 Voice of San Diego
This article references a paper by Peter Andreas.
Peter Andreas
peter_andreas@brown.edu
+1 401 863 9839
111 Thayer Street, Room 312
Peter Andreas
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Biography
Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies. He joined the Institute in the fall of 2001, and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. 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 eleven books. These include Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (Oxford University Press, 2013, selected by Amazon and by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of the year), 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); and Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Cornell University Press, 2000, second edition 2009, third edition 2020). His most recent book is a political memoir, Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2017, selected by Foreign Affairs as a best book of the year). His new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2020), explores the relationship between warfare and mind altering substances, from ancient times to the present.
Andreas has also written for a wide range of scholarly and policy publications, including International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Harper's, Slate, andThe Nation. Other writings include congressional testimonies and op-eds in major newspapers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and The Guardian.
Research
The clandestine dimensions of globalization involve illicit cross-border flows of people, goods, money and information. This project critically examines the interaction between states and illicit flows across time, place, and commodity, focusing especially on the practice and politics of government policing efforts. The project, which bridges the study of security, political economy, and cross-border crime, involves a wide range of outputs and activities: books and edited volumes, scholarly and policy articles, conferences, and courses.
This includes books such as 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 (paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 2008); Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (second edition, Cornell University Press, 2009); and Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2010).
Other activities include recent policy and scholarly articles in such publications as Foreign Affairs and Political Science Quarterly; chapter contributions to edited volumes; co-editing a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Crime, Law & Social Change; organizing a conference (focusing on the relationship between violence and illicit markets) hosted and sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; op-eds in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Bloomberg.com; and lectures in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The teaching component includes a lecture course on "The Politics of the Illicit Global Economy" a senior research seminar on "Contraband Capitalism: States and Illegal Markets," and a first-year seminar on "Drug War Politics."
Current Projects
Publications
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, Oxford University Press, 2020
"Crime, Violence, and Illicit Economies in Regional and Global Perspective," Perspectives on Politics (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2019)
"Drugs and War: What is the Relationship?" Annual Review of Political Science (2019)
"Border Collision" (with N. Brigden), in Katzenstein and Seybert, eds. Protean Power: Exploring the Unexpected in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution, Simon & Schuster, 2017
Teaching
Politics of the Illicit Global Economy
Drug War Politics
Contemporary Security Issues
Contraband Capitalism
News|Recent News
Andreas talks war and drugs (interview with Peter Andreas)
March 9, 2020 The Heights (Boston College)
Peter Andreas visited Boston College to deliver a lecture on the role drugs have played in shaping world history, especially with regard to warfare.
The Trump administration wants to shut down vaping? 100 years ago, the government urged soldiers to smoke. (written by Peter Andreas)
February 28, 2020 The Washington Post
In this piece, Peter Andreas draws comparison between the way tobacco was viewed a century ago versus today - while making reference to his new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs. Andreas specifically highlights the role addiction played throughout times of war - especially during World War I.
How World War II got Japan and the US hooked on amphetamines, ‘the ultimate military performance enhancing drug’ (written by Peter Andreas)
February 24, 2020 Post Magazine
In this excerpt of Peter Andreas' book Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, Andreas recounts how a post-war surplus of the drug caused addiction epidemics to unfold on both sides of the Pacific.
“Killer High” Presents a Shocking History of How Drugs Have Shaped War (interview with Peter Andreas)
February 18, 2020 merryjane.com
Peter Andreas was interviewed about his new book, "Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs" on merryjane.com.
For centuries, war and opium have been entwined in Asia – sometimes assisted by the US (written by Peter Andreas)
February 18, 2020 Post Magazine
Peter Andreas penned this article - including an excerpt from his new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs.
World War I and the Birth of Prohibition 100 Years Ago (written by Peter Andreas)
February 12, 2020 HistoryNet
Peter Andreas in HistoryNet, "If World War I was the crucial context that gave birth to Prohibition, the Great Depression was the crucial context that killed it off."
Events
Jan 30, 2020
Peter Andreas ─ Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Talks & Media
Rebel Mother Book-Related Press
Thanks to Mom, the Marxist Revolutionary - New York Times
My Mother the Radical - Brown Alumni Magazine
Growing Up A Revolutionary - WNYC
Mothers and Sons – The New York Times
"Brown University professor writes about childhood with ‘Rebel Mother’" - Providence Journal
"Expats After the Coup" - The Baffler
"Unsentimental Education" - Swarthmore College Bulletin
"Smuggling My Way Into Academe" - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"What It's Like to Join a Revolution as a Five-Year-Old" - VICE
"Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution" - Publisher's Weekly
"Rebel Mother - Review" - Kirkus
"Cooks, Rebel Mothers, & Media Stars | Memoir Previews, Apr. 2017, Pt. 3" - Library Journal
Watson Institute Interview & Book Talk
Book Talks
April 6: Watson Institute book launch event
April 18: Point Street Reading Series "Reading with Robin", Providence
April 19: Redwood Library, Newport http://www.redwoodlibrary.
April 22: Barrington Books, Barrington http://www.barringtonbooks.
April 26: Macaulay Honors College, New York City https://macaulay.cuny.edu/
May 2: Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver http://www.tatteredcover.com/
May 3: Brown Club of Silicon Valley http://www.brownsv.
May 4: St. Francis Yacht Club/Brown Club of San Francisco
May 5: Book Passage Bookstore, San Francisco http://www.
May 7: Stories Books and Cafe, Los Angeles https://storiesla.com/blogs/
May 9: Annie Bloom's Books, Portland http://www.annieblooms.com/
May 10: Third Place Books, Seattle http://www.thirdplacebooks.
May 20: Books on the Square, Providence