Bryan R. Early

I am a Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Research at the University at Albany, SUNY’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs Policy. I am also the founding Director of the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) and served as the Director for the Center for Policy Research from 2015-2019. As a principal investigator at the Center for Policy Research, I have been the recipient of 90 externally-sponsored awards totaling over $18 million since 2011.

My scholarship focuses on economic statecraft, illicit economies, the proliferation of strategic technologies, the security implications of strategic technologies, and political violence. I am the author of Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail (Stanford University Press, 2015), which explores how and why third-party spoiler states undercut the effectiveness of U.S. sanctioning efforts with the foreign trade and aid they provide to sanctioned states. I am an expert on the design, implementation, and enforcement of economic sanctions and strategic trade controls and have extensive experience writing grants, managing team-based international projects, developing training curricula for government officials, and advising governments on sanctions and strategic trade policy. My PISCES Team has provided consultations and training to dozens of governments around the world on behalf of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.

Prior to my current appointment, I was a research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2008-2009 and a graduate research associate at The University of Georgia's Center for International Trade & Security (CITS) from 2005-2008. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Georgia in 2009.

On this website, you will find information about my research, replication materials, and on the courses I have taught.