Jeffrey Colgan

Assistant Professor
School of International Service

• Professor Jeff Colgan is interested in the geopolitics of oil, the resource curse, international security, and international trade. He completed his PhD at Princeton University, with a dissertation entitled "Oil, Revolution, and International Conflict." In it he presents a new theory of why oil is linked to international conflict: petrostates with revolutionary governments have a much higher propensity to instigate militarized conflict than other types of states. He has published in International Organization, PS: Political Science, and the Journal of Public and International Affairs. He also published a book, The Promise and Peril of International Trade (2005), focusing on the politics of free trade in Canada. Previously, Professor Colgan worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Company, the Brattle Group, and the World Bank.