John P. Sullivan is a career police officer. He currently serves as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He is also an adjunct researcher at the Vortex Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia; a senior research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST); and a senior fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro. He is contributing co-editor of Counterterrorism: Bridging Operations and Theory (iUniverse, 2015), co-editor of Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America (iUniverse, 2015), Crime Wars and Narco Terrorism in the Americas (iUniverse, 2014), Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses (Routledge, 2010), Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network (Routledge, 2006), and co-author of Studies in Gangs and Cartels (Routledge, 2013) and Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology (iUniverse, 2011).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, doctorate in Information and Knowledge Society, from the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at 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 and other countries.