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Peter Andreas - April 18, 2005
"North American Border Controls in a Changing
Economic and Security Context"
Peter Andreas (BA Swarthmore College, MA and PhD Cornell University) is assistant professor of political science and international studies at Brown University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, and the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security. He is the author of Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Cornell University Press, 2000), co-author of Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial (University of California Press, 1996), and has also co-edited three other books. He has written for a range of scholarly and general audience publications, including International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Current History, The New Republic, and The Nation. Other writings include a congressional report, testimonies before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and op-eds in national newspapers. Current research interests include border controls and smuggling, the clandestine political economy of armed conflict and its aftermath, the internationalization of crime and crime control, the relationship between national security and law enforcement institutions and missions, and prohibition norms and symbolic politics.
