"How Colonies Are Governed," is a collection of five articles originally published in 1904 in Gunton’s Magazine of American Economics and Political Science, by Stephen Pierce Duggan (1870-1950), was a United States scholar and educator known as the "apostle of internationalism." He was a professor of history at the College City of New York, and was director of Council on Foreign Relations (1921–1950). Duggan founded The Institute of International Education in 1919, together with Nobel Laureates Elihu Root and Nicholas Murray Butler, and was the first director (until 1946).

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.