Jeff Colgan
Director of Climate Solutions Lab
Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Jeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. His research focuses on international order, especially as related to energy and the environment.
His latest book, Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order was published in September 2021 by Oxford University Press. His book won the 2021 Best Book Prize (Energy Policy, Non-Fiction) from the American Energy Society. His previous book, Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He has published work in International Organization, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, International Security and elsewhere. He also occasionally blogs at the Monkey Cage and Foreign Affairs. On Twitter, he is @JeffDColgan
Professor Colgan previously taught at the School of International Service of American University 2010-2014, and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 2012-13. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and was a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley, where he earned a Master’s in Public Policy. Dr. Colgan has worked with the World Bank, McKinsey & Company, and The Brattle Group.
Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War (Cambridge University Press 2013)
The Promise and Peril of International Trade (Broadview Press 2005)
Published Articles
"International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change,” Annual Reviews of Political Science (forthcoming June 2023)
"Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change” International Organization, vol 75, Special Issue 2, Spring 2021, pp.586-610
"Climate Change and the Politics of Military Bases," Global Environmental Politics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 33-51, (2018).
[Other publications available at: https://sites.google.com/site/jeffdcolgan/research ]
April 5, 2023 Foreign Policy
In a recent article for Foreign Policy, Jeff Colgan explores whether the 1978 Enviro Modification treaty could be legal basis for climate loss & damages.
February 6, 2023 Harvard University Epicenter Podcast
Jeff Colgan, Director of the Climate Solutions Lab, explains why green energy is different in an interview on Harvard's Epicenter Podcast.
December 12, 2022 Foreign Affairs
Jeff Colgan discusses the competition between the United States and China for Foreign Affairs.
November 12, 2022 The Japan Times
Jeffrey Colgan comments for The Japan Times, on the impact of the midterm election results for President Joe Biden's climate policies.
November 9, 2022 Grist
Director of Climate Solutions Lab Jeff Colgan comments for Grist, “It’s really been remarkable how much climate change has risen on the political agenda."
November 3, 2022 The Providence Journal
Jeff Colgan comments for The Providence Journal, "Inflation has ben running roughly 9%, and that’s true not just in U.S., but most of the G7 nations, so to say that it is what happened in Congress ignores what is happening everywhere."
October 19, 2022 BBC News
Director of the Climate Solutions Lab Jeff Colgan provided commentary on President Joe Biden's remarks on current U.S.-Saudi relations for BBC News.
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