Author

Jeff D. Colgan

JEFF D. COLGAN is Director of the Climate Solutions Lab and Richard Holbrooke Professor in the Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order and Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War.

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The Missed Opportunity of Europe’s Energy Crisis

Putin’s Aggression Should Speed the Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

Alexander Gard-Murray, Miriam Hinthorn, and Jeff D. Colgan

August 23, 2023

The Rewards of Rivalry

U.S.-Chinese Competition Can Spur Climate Progress

Jeff D. Colgan and Nicholas L. Miller

Save the Environment, Save American Democracy

How a Pro-Climate Vision Can Strengthen America’s Social Fabric

Robert O. Keohane and Jeff D. Colgan

September 20, 2021

The Climate Case Against Decoupling

Severing U.S.-Chinese Links Would Make It Impossible to Save the Environment

September 14, 2020

The Liberal Order Is Rigged

Fix It Now or Watch It Wither

Jeff D. Colgan and Robert O. Keohane

Saving Liberalism

Why Tolerance and Equality Are Not Enough

January 13, 2017

OPEC’s Empty Agreement

Why Production Cuts Won’t Change Much

October 4, 2016

How OPEC Lost Its Bite

The Oil Cartel That Behaves Like a Club

December 3, 2015

From West Texas to the World

Why Washington May End its Ban on Crude Oil Exports

October 26, 2015