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Peter Andreas joined the Brown Department of Political Science in the fall of 2001, and holds a joint appointment with the Watson Institute for International Studies. He is also the director of Brown's International Relations Program. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Reed College, 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 received his BA from Swarthmore College and PhD from Cornell University.

Andreas is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books. This includes, 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, 2nd edition 2009). Other writings include articles for publications such as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Nation. He has also written op-eds for newspapers such as the Washington Post and the Boston Globe and provided testimony before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

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).

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