John P Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0585-5617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sheinbaum’s Dilemma: Mexico’s Security Choices After FTO Designation
The US designation of six Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) marks a pivotal shift in bilateral security relations, compelling Mexico to navigate a complex strategic landscape. This study uses game-theoretic modeling, scenario analysis, and Nash equilibria to evaluate three possible responses by the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum: (1) Total Subordination—fully aligning with US counter-cartel efforts, (2) Covert Subordi…
Uncovering hidden alliances in organized crime networks with machine learning: From Node Similarity to Graph Neural Networks
Covert or dark networks, such as those formed by organized crime or illicit alliances, pose unique challenges for link prediction research due to their inherent secrecy and data incompleteness. In this study, we compare a suite of advanced methods for inferring missing links in covert networks, including classical node similarity indices, graph embedding approaches, and GNN-based methods. We evaluate them on two real-world datasets: the Lantia da…
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities
The Information Age: Transnational Organized Crime, Networks, and Illicit Markets
In his landmark trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, sociologist Manuel Castells argued that networks, information technology, and global economic flows were altering the nature of politics, power, and states. This article examines the network dynamics Castells wrote about in relation to transnational crime and illicit economic markets. The article further explores Castells’s influence on the study of transnational organize…
Revisiting Domestic Intelligence
This article looks at the evolution of US domestic intelligence prior to and since 9/11 in light of the Capitol attacks. It also reviews the literature and practice of intelligence reform in the context of foreign comparative experience (France, UK, Canada, Australia). It looks at the promise of fusion centers, cocontemporay domestic intelligence models, and the continuing need for domestic intelligence reform. Additional Keywords: Domestic Intel…
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Crime wars: Operational perspectives on criminal armed groups in Mexico and Brazil
Violent conflicts involving non-State armed groups challenge conventional perceptions of war and armed conflict. Criminal enterprises (transnational organized criminal groups including gangs and cartels) are involved in violent competition for both profit and territorial control in many parts of the world. This paper examines the situation in Mexico and Brazil as case studies to assess the legal challenges to criminal armed violence when criminal…
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire
While conflict, crime, and terrorism are persistent geopolitical and human security threats, climate change can be a threat multiplier, affecting geopolitical stability on local, regional, and global scales. This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the literature and geopolitical trends related to climate change, migration, and ethnocentrism in order to evaluate the current situation and future potentials for climate-driven conflict, crime…
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
Integrating feral cities and third phase cartels/third generation gangs research: The rise of criminal (narco) city networks and BlackFor
This essay addresses and integrates ‘feral cities’ with ‘third phase cartel’ and ‘third generation gangs’ (3GEN Gangs) research. The feral cities diagnostic tool will be expanded from three levels (green, yellow, and red) to five (adding purple and black). This will be accomplished by means of the addition of two new levels that model the shift from ferality (de-institutionalization) to criminal re-institutionalization of urban social and politic…
Rethinking insurgency: Criminality, spirituality, and societal warfare in the Americas
Driven by globalization, Internet communications technology (ICT), and new economic forms the nature of states may be changing. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) – including what are commonly known as cartels – are early adopters to the new political/economic landscape. In addition to seeking to rule the illicit economy, criminal actors (networked cartels and gangs) are challenging states through high-order violence and leveraging nasce…
Scholarship and spirituality
Cartel evolution revisited: Third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico
Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) – commonly called drug cartels – are challenging states and their institutions in increasingly brutal and profound ways. This is seen dramatically in Mexico's drug wars and the expanding reach of Mexican organized criminal enterprises throughout Latin America and other parts of the world. This essay updates a 1998 paper ‘Cartel Evolution: Potentials and Consequences’ and examines current cartel and gang inter…
Counter-supply and counter-violence approaches to narcotics trafficking
Narcotics and the drug trade contribute to a range of social ills. Among these are social instability, violence, corruption, and a weakening of the state. A range of criminal enterprises, including transnational gangs and drug cartels are engaged in the global trade in illicit drugs. This essay looks at measures to stem this trade through interventions directed against the drug supply and efforts to limit the violence that results from the drug t…
Terrorism Early Warning and Counterterrorism Intelligence
The article of record as published may be found athttps://doi.org/10.1080/08850600701648686
Maras Morphing: Revisiting Third Generation Gangs
Third generation street gangs are a crime and security problem in many global cities, internationally linked ethnic Diasporas, and cross-border regions where insecurity and criminal non-state actors reign. Widely known as third generation gangs (3 GEN Gangs), complex gangs operate with broad reach—often across borders—and can develop mercenary and at times political and potentially terrorist objectives. The typology of the three generations of ga…
Afterward: Law Enforcement Response Strategies for Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers
Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers are two interrelated threats that challenge order and stability at local, national, and potentially global levels. Policing and law enforcement are essential to securing the conditions necessary for stable governance and preserving the rule of law. Law enforcement and police services play key roles in ensuring community stability. They also control and contain criminal threats, protect individual liberties, a…
Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords
The nature of crime and conflict has changed and continues to evolve. The now and future war is and will be influenced by irregular combatants – non-state soldiers – that utilize technology and networked doctrine to spread their influence across traditional geographic boundaries. This era shift in political and social organization, fueled by rapid developments of technology and exploitation of network organizational forms, blurs the distinctions …
Networked Force Structure and C 4 I
The face of terrorism and warfare appears to be changing. This paper describes ways to develop a networked force structure and C41 (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence) apparatus based upon improved intelligence and operations fusion capabilities to enhance the way we wage war and protect the public in the now and future battlefield of global and transnational, homeland, cyberspace conflict. This operational space and the ad…
Urban gangs evolving as criminal Netwar actors
The nature of conflict and crime is changing. Technology allows groups to spread their influence without regard to geographic limitations. A shift from hierarchies to network organizational forms is also occurring. As a consequence non‐state actors can extend their influence to gain social, political or economic power and challenge state institutions. This article examines the potential for gangs, transnational criminals and terrorists to embrace…
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Petronius, the Satyricon and the Fragments. With an Introduction
Letters and Papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army, Volume III, 1779-1795
Present Status of Safety Education in Some Representative School Systems
Present Status of Safety Education in Some Representative School Systems John P. Sullivan CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1175 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The effect of benzedrine sulfate on children taking the new Stanford Achievement Test
Maras Morphing: Revisiting Third Generation Gangs
Third generation street gangs are a crime and security problem in many global cities, internationally linked ethnic Diasporas, and cross-border regions where insecurity and criminal non-state actors reign. Widely known as third generation gangs (3 GEN Gangs), complex gangs operate with broad reach—often across borders—and can develop mercenary and at times political and potentially terrorist objectives. The typology of the three generations of ga…
Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords
The nature of crime and conflict has changed and continues to evolve. The now and future war is and will be influenced by irregular combatants – non-state soldiers – that utilize technology and networked doctrine to spread their influence across traditional geographic boundaries. This era shift in political and social organization, fueled by rapid developments of technology and exploitation of network organizational forms, blurs the distinctions …
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
Rethinking insurgency: Criminality, spirituality, and societal warfare in the Americas
Driven by globalization, Internet communications technology (ICT), and new economic forms the nature of states may be changing. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) – including what are commonly known as cartels – are early adopters to the new political/economic landscape. In addition to seeking to rule the illicit economy, criminal actors (networked cartels and gangs) are challenging states through high-order violence and leveraging nasce…
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Crime wars: Operational perspectives on criminal armed groups in Mexico and Brazil
Violent conflicts involving non-State armed groups challenge conventional perceptions of war and armed conflict. Criminal enterprises (transnational organized criminal groups including gangs and cartels) are involved in violent competition for both profit and territorial control in many parts of the world. This paper examines the situation in Mexico and Brazil as case studies to assess the legal challenges to criminal armed violence when criminal…
Cartel evolution revisited: Third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico
Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) – commonly called drug cartels – are challenging states and their institutions in increasingly brutal and profound ways. This is seen dramatically in Mexico's drug wars and the expanding reach of Mexican organized criminal enterprises throughout Latin America and other parts of the world. This essay updates a 1998 paper ‘Cartel Evolution: Potentials and Consequences’ and examines current cartel and gang inter…
Urban gangs evolving as criminal Netwar actors
The nature of conflict and crime is changing. Technology allows groups to spread their influence without regard to geographic limitations. A shift from hierarchies to network organizational forms is also occurring. As a consequence non‐state actors can extend their influence to gain social, political or economic power and challenge state institutions. This article examines the potential for gangs, transnational criminals and terrorists to embrace…
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
The Information Age: Transnational Organized Crime, Networks, and Illicit Markets
In his landmark trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, sociologist Manuel Castells argued that networks, information technology, and global economic flows were altering the nature of politics, power, and states. This article examines the network dynamics Castells wrote about in relation to transnational crime and illicit economic markets. The article further explores Castells’s influence on the study of transnational organize…
Revisiting Domestic Intelligence
This article looks at the evolution of US domestic intelligence prior to and since 9/11 in light of the Capitol attacks. It also reviews the literature and practice of intelligence reform in the context of foreign comparative experience (France, UK, Canada, Australia). It looks at the promise of fusion centers, cocontemporay domestic intelligence models, and the continuing need for domestic intelligence reform. Additional Keywords: Domestic Intel…
Integrating feral cities and third phase cartels/third generation gangs research: The rise of criminal (narco) city networks and BlackFor
This essay addresses and integrates ‘feral cities’ with ‘third phase cartel’ and ‘third generation gangs’ (3GEN Gangs) research. The feral cities diagnostic tool will be expanded from three levels (green, yellow, and red) to five (adding purple and black). This will be accomplished by means of the addition of two new levels that model the shift from ferality (de-institutionalization) to criminal re-institutionalization of urban social and politic…
Afterward: Law Enforcement Response Strategies for Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers
Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers are two interrelated threats that challenge order and stability at local, national, and potentially global levels. Policing and law enforcement are essential to securing the conditions necessary for stable governance and preserving the rule of law. Law enforcement and police services play key roles in ensuring community stability. They also control and contain criminal threats, protect individual liberties, a…
School Health Problems Through the Years: Boston Public Schools, 1635-1935
School Health Problems Through the Years: Boston Public Schools, 1635-1935 John P. Sullivan CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.25.9.1001 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The effect of benzedrine sulfate on children taking the new Stanford Achievement Test
Present Status of Safety Education in Some Representative School Systems
Present Status of Safety Education in Some Representative School Systems John P. Sullivan CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1175 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Letters and Papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army, Volume III, 1779-1795
Petronius, the Satyricon and the Fragments. With an Introduction
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Urban gangs evolving as criminal Netwar actors
The nature of conflict and crime is changing. Technology allows groups to spread their influence without regard to geographic limitations. A shift from hierarchies to network organizational forms is also occurring. As a consequence non‐state actors can extend their influence to gain social, political or economic power and challenge state institutions. This article examines the potential for gangs, transnational criminals and terrorists to embrace…
Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords
The nature of crime and conflict has changed and continues to evolve. The now and future war is and will be influenced by irregular combatants – non-state soldiers – that utilize technology and networked doctrine to spread their influence across traditional geographic boundaries. This era shift in political and social organization, fueled by rapid developments of technology and exploitation of network organizational forms, blurs the distinctions …
Networked Force Structure and C 4 I
The face of terrorism and warfare appears to be changing. This paper describes ways to develop a networked force structure and C41 (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence) apparatus based upon improved intelligence and operations fusion capabilities to enhance the way we wage war and protect the public in the now and future battlefield of global and transnational, homeland, cyberspace conflict. This operational space and the ad…
Maras Morphing: Revisiting Third Generation Gangs
Third generation street gangs are a crime and security problem in many global cities, internationally linked ethnic Diasporas, and cross-border regions where insecurity and criminal non-state actors reign. Widely known as third generation gangs (3 GEN Gangs), complex gangs operate with broad reach—often across borders—and can develop mercenary and at times political and potentially terrorist objectives. The typology of the three generations of ga…
Afterward: Law Enforcement Response Strategies for Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers
Criminal-states and Criminal-soldiers are two interrelated threats that challenge order and stability at local, national, and potentially global levels. Policing and law enforcement are essential to securing the conditions necessary for stable governance and preserving the rule of law. Law enforcement and police services play key roles in ensuring community stability. They also control and contain criminal threats, protect individual liberties, a…
Terrorism Early Warning and Counterterrorism Intelligence
The article of record as published may be found athttps://doi.org/10.1080/08850600701648686
Scholarship and spirituality
Cartel evolution revisited: Third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico
Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) – commonly called drug cartels – are challenging states and their institutions in increasingly brutal and profound ways. This is seen dramatically in Mexico's drug wars and the expanding reach of Mexican organized criminal enterprises throughout Latin America and other parts of the world. This essay updates a 1998 paper ‘Cartel Evolution: Potentials and Consequences’ and examines current cartel and gang inter…
Counter-supply and counter-violence approaches to narcotics trafficking
Narcotics and the drug trade contribute to a range of social ills. Among these are social instability, violence, corruption, and a weakening of the state. A range of criminal enterprises, including transnational gangs and drug cartels are engaged in the global trade in illicit drugs. This essay looks at measures to stem this trade through interventions directed against the drug supply and efforts to limit the violence that results from the drug t…
Integrating feral cities and third phase cartels/third generation gangs research: The rise of criminal (narco) city networks and BlackFor
This essay addresses and integrates ‘feral cities’ with ‘third phase cartel’ and ‘third generation gangs’ (3GEN Gangs) research. The feral cities diagnostic tool will be expanded from three levels (green, yellow, and red) to five (adding purple and black). This will be accomplished by means of the addition of two new levels that model the shift from ferality (de-institutionalization) to criminal re-institutionalization of urban social and politic…
Rethinking insurgency: Criminality, spirituality, and societal warfare in the Americas
Driven by globalization, Internet communications technology (ICT), and new economic forms the nature of states may be changing. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) – including what are commonly known as cartels – are early adopters to the new political/economic landscape. In addition to seeking to rule the illicit economy, criminal actors (networked cartels and gangs) are challenging states through high-order violence and leveraging nasce…
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
Revisiting Domestic Intelligence
This article looks at the evolution of US domestic intelligence prior to and since 9/11 in light of the Capitol attacks. It also reviews the literature and practice of intelligence reform in the context of foreign comparative experience (France, UK, Canada, Australia). It looks at the promise of fusion centers, cocontemporay domestic intelligence models, and the continuing need for domestic intelligence reform. Additional Keywords: Domestic Intel…
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Crime wars: Operational perspectives on criminal armed groups in Mexico and Brazil
Violent conflicts involving non-State armed groups challenge conventional perceptions of war and armed conflict. Criminal enterprises (transnational organized criminal groups including gangs and cartels) are involved in violent competition for both profit and territorial control in many parts of the world. This paper examines the situation in Mexico and Brazil as case studies to assess the legal challenges to criminal armed violence when criminal…
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire
While conflict, crime, and terrorism are persistent geopolitical and human security threats, climate change can be a threat multiplier, affecting geopolitical stability on local, regional, and global scales. This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the literature and geopolitical trends related to climate change, migration, and ethnocentrism in order to evaluate the current situation and future potentials for climate-driven conflict, crime…
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities
The Information Age: Transnational Organized Crime, Networks, and Illicit Markets
In his landmark trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, sociologist Manuel Castells argued that networks, information technology, and global economic flows were altering the nature of politics, power, and states. This article examines the network dynamics Castells wrote about in relation to transnational crime and illicit economic markets. The article further explores Castells’s influence on the study of transnational organize…
Uncovering hidden alliances in organized crime networks with machine learning: From Node Similarity to Graph Neural Networks
Covert or dark networks, such as those formed by organized crime or illicit alliances, pose unique challenges for link prediction research due to their inherent secrecy and data incompleteness. In this study, we compare a suite of advanced methods for inferring missing links in covert networks, including classical node similarity indices, graph embedding approaches, and GNN-based methods. We evaluate them on two real-world datasets: the Lantia da…
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Organised crime (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Terrorism (8 works)