John P. Sullivan

John P. Sullivan was a career police officer. He retired as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He is an instructor at the University of Southern California, Safe Communities Institute; a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Global Observatory of Transnational Criminal Networks; an adjunct researcher at the Vortex Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia; a research fellow at Arizona State University, Future Security Initiative; and a senior fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro. Sullivan completed the CREATE Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism at the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Arts in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research, and a PhD from the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in Barcelona. His doctoral thesis was "Mexico's Drug War: Cartels, Gangs, Sovereignty and the Network State." His current research focus is the impact of transnational organized crime on sovereignty in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries.