Paul Amar

Paul Amar is an associate professor in the Global & International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in international security studies, political sociology, global ethnography, and gender/race/postcolonial theory. He holds affiliate appointments in Feminist Studies, Sociology, Middle East Studies, and Latin American & Iberian Studies. His research traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the global south. His books include the The Security Archipelago: ‘Human Security’ States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism (Duke University Press, 2011); Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East, with Diane Singerman (American University in Cairo Press, 2006); New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics (Routledge, 2010); Global South to the Rescue: Emergent Humanitarian Superpowers and Transnational Rescue Industries (Routledge, 2011); and The Rise of the Commando Cop: Militarizing Global Police Cultures and Gendering the Force of Law (in progress).