Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects
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Political Science
Jeff Colgan
Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Rm. 303/Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs - 111 Thayer Street
Areas of Expertise
International Security, Politics and History, Political Economy
2024-25
On Leave
Biography
Jeff D. Colgan is the Richard Holbrooke Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the 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 triple award-winning book, Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order was published in September 2021 by Oxford University Press. It won the Jervis Schroeder Best Book Award from the APSA International History and Politics section; the Best Book Award from the APSA International Collaboration section (co-winner); and the Best Book (Energy Policy—Non-Fiction) award from the American Energy Society.
Professor Colgan’s previous 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.
Awards
Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order
The Jervis Schroeder Best Book Award from the APSA International History and Politics section
Co-Winner, Best Book, International Collaboration Section, American Political Science Association
Winner, Best Book, Energy Policy—Non-Fiction, American Energy Society
Recent News
Several OPEC+ countries will reduce oil production by a combined 2.2 million barrels per day through June. Jeff Colgan, director of the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown, discusses how the decreased output could affect the U.S.
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An obscure 1978 treaty may grant the ICJ jurisdiction over the world’s largest emitters.
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Foreign Policy Magazine
Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Destroying the Multipolar World
The EU and Russia are losing their competitive edge. That leaves the United States and China to duke it out.
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