Paul Amar, an associate professor in the global and international studies program at the University of
California-Santa Barbara, specializes in comparative politics, human geography, international security
studies, political sociology, global ethnography, theories of the state, and theories of gender, race, and
postcolonial politics. He has worked as a journalist in Egypt, a police reformer in Brazil, and a U.N. conflict
resolution and economic development specialist. Amar’s research, publishing, and teaching focus on the
areas of state institutions, security regimes, social movements, and democratic transitions in the Middle
East and Latin America, and trace 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 recent publications shed light on the racial, sexual, and gendered nature of new forms of
security governance; reconceptualize how security-sector transfers shape state formations in Latin America
and the Middle East; and offer new frames for explaining the link between institutional changes in military
and security apparatuses. “The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End
of Neoliberalism” (2013), is his latest book.
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