Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University. He joined the Watson 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 M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University and a B.A. 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" (2013, Oxford University Press, 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" (2008, Cornell University Press), "Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations" (2006, Oxford University Press), "Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide" (3rd ed. 2022, Cornell University Press), and "Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs" (2020, Oxford University Press, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for best book of the year). He has also written a political memoir, "Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution" (2017, Simon & Schuster), which was selected by Foreign Affairs as a best book of the year. His latest book, "The Illicit Global Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know," is under contract with Oxford University Press.

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, Time, and The 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.