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Paul Amar, Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program, 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 holds affiliate appointments in Feminist Studies, Sociology, Comparative Literature, Middle East Studies, and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Prof. Amar's research, publishing and teaching focuses on the areas of state institutions, security regimes, social movements, and democratic transitions in the Middle East and Latin America, and 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 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. His books include: The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism (Duke University Press, 2013); 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 Globalizing Rescue Industries (Routledge, 2011); Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East with Vijay Prashad (Minnesota University Press / LeftWord Press, 2013); and Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South (Indiana University Press, 2014).