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Biography:

Nathan P. Jones is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction (2016) with Georgetown University Press. His areas of interest include organized crime violence in Mexico, drug trafficking organizations, social network analysis, border security, and the political economy of homeland security. Dr. Jones is also a Senior Fellow with the Small Wars Journal–El Centro, a Rice University Baker Institute Drug Policy and US-Mexico Center non-resident scholar, and the book review editor for the Journal of Strategic Security.

Recent Publications:

Recent Journal Articles:

• Jones, Nathan P. "Bacterial Conjugation as a Framework for the Homogenization of Tactics in Mexican Organized Crime." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, March 29, 2019. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1586356.
• Baker, Natalie D., and Nathan P. Jones. "The Snake Who Eats the Devil's Tail: The Recursivity of Good and Evil in the Security State." Media, War, & Conflict, May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635219846021.
• Jones, Nathan P., W Layne Dittmann, Jun Wu, and Tyler Reese. "A Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis of a Cross-Border Drug Network: The Fernando Sanchez Organization (FSO)." Trends in Organized Crime, 2018, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-018-9352-9.
• Jones, Nathan. "The Strategic Implications of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación." Journal of Strategic Security, 11, no. 1 (2018): 19–42. https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.11.1.1661.

Books:

• Jones, Nathan P. Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2016. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/mexicos-illicit-drug-networks-and-state-reaction#body