Jeff Colgan

Biography

On Sabbatical Off Campus for 2018-2019

Jeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and 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 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.

Teaching

International Political Economy

Geopolitics of Oil and Energy

Publications

Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War (Cambridge University Press 2013)
The Promise and Peril of International Trade (Broadview Press 2005)

News|Recent News

An oil refinery next to a neighborhood in Texas

Pricing in climate change (interview with Jeff Colgan)

April 24, 2019 BBC

Jeff Colgan joined BBC's Business Daily to discuss "why he thinks sectors like insurance, property and oil and gas are overpriced given the threat of climate change."

Does OPEC really control oil prices? (Jeff Colgan featured)

March 21, 2019 CNN

Jeff Colgan is featured in CNN's video explaining the relationship between OPEC and oil prices.

OPEC members comply with cartel, reduce oil production (interview with Jeff Colgan)

March 19, 2019 Marketplace

Associate Professor Jeff Colgan joined Marketplace to discuss global oil supply and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The Existential Politics of Climate Change (co-authored by Jeff Colgan)

February 22, 2019 Global Policy Journal

Jeff Colgan in the Global Policy Journal, "Climate politics are changing. Beyond 'politics as usual,' climate politics are becoming existential: climate-forcing and climate-vulnerable interests are both fighting for the survival of their way of life."

The Liberal Order is Rigged (Jeff Colgan featured)

January 23, 2019 IIEA

In an address to The Institute of International European Affairs, Associate Professor Jeff Colgan "argues that the liberal order, though successful in many ways, has become self-defeating – in part by contributing to a deepening economic inequality and the politics of outrage that follow from it."