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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs — New Book by Peter Andreas
Additional news coverage for Peter Andreas' new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs.
2020 In the News
Professor of International Studies and Political Science Peter Andreas penned this article about how alcohol was promoted as essential to the war efforts in the 1940s.
Zocalo Public Square
The World War II Wonder Drug That Never Left Japan (written by Peter Andreas)
Citing his new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, Watson faculty member Peter Andreas details the heavy use of methamphetamine in Japan during war.
Drawing from his new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, Watson faculty member Peter Andreas details drug use in historical warfare.
Senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Chas Freeman, weighs in on the recent turmoil between the United States and Iran.
The New York Times
A History of War in Six Drugs (interview with Peter Andreas)
This piece discusses Peter Andreas' new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs, which examines the role of psychoactive and addictive drugs in discussions of war.
Drawing on estimates and data from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Costs of War project, this article explores the ways in which perpetual conflict affects countries on a monetary scale.
Richard Arenberg in The Hill, "Not only has the process been accelerated, but increasingly the minority in the Senate has been cut out of the process. This encourages a president to appoint more partisan and idealogical judges. Until recently, most federal judges were confirmed by voice vote in the Senate: 98 percent of George H.W. Bush's nominees to Circuit Court were confirmed by voice vote..."
Director of the Brazil Initiative James Green provided commentary on the agenda of Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro.