Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between

Authors

John P. Sullivan, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Safe Communities InstituteFollow
Nathan P. Jones, Ph.D., Sam Houston State UniversityFollow
Daniel W. Argomedo, Ph.D., University of California, IrvineFollow

Author Biography

Dr. John P. Sullivan retired as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He is an Instructor in the Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California. He has a PhD from the Open University of Catalonia, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He received a lifetime achievement award from the National Fusion Center Association in November 2018 for his contributions to the national network of fusion centers.

Nathan P. Jones is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction (2016) with Georgetown University Press. His areas of interest include organized crime violence in Mexico, social network analysis, border security, and the political economy of homeland security. Dr. Jones is also a Senior Fellow with the Small Wars Journal–El Centro, a Rice University Baker Institute Drug Policy and US-Mexico Center non-resident scholar, and the book review editor for the Journal of Strategic Security.

Daniel Weisz Argomedo earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California Irvine with a focus on International Relations and Comparative Studies. His dissertation focused on the war on drugs and its impact on women’s security in Mexico. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University where he wrote a dissertation on ‘Hacktivism and social movements; and earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Alberta where he wrote a thesis on the Mexican war on drugs. He wrote "Climate Change, Drug Traffickers and La Sierra Tarahumara" for the special issue on climate change and global security at the Journal of Strategic Security. He is fluent in Spanish and his research interests include cyberwarfare, the war on drugs, women’s security and contemporary Latin American politics and history. He can be reached at dweiszar@uci.edu.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.16.3.2188

Subject Area Keywords

Complex operations, Counterterrorism, Gangs and criminal organizations, Global trends and risks, Governance and rule of law, International security, Mexico, National security, Nonstate actors, Security studies, Sociocultural dynamics in security

Recommended Citation

Sullivan,, John P. Ph.D.; Jones,, Nathan P. Ph.D.; and Argomedo,, Daniel W. Ph.D.. "Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between." Journal of Strategic Security 16, no. 3 (2023) : i-x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.16.3.2188
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol16/iss3/1