Michael A. Innes is a journalist and academic
based in the UK.
From 2003 to 2009 he was a civilian staff officer with NATO, serving at Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium
and on operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He spent the months of
April and May 2009 as a SHAPE staff liaison to ISAF HQ in Kabul.
In 2006 he was appointed Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Politics
and International Studies, University
of Leeds, and in 2007 he was named
Research and Practice Associate of the Institute For National Security and
Counterterrorism (INSCT), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. In 2008, he joined the School of Public Policy, University College
London, as a doctoral candidate.
He publishes
regularly in academic, mainstream, and social media, and is the editor of three
books: Making Sense of Proxy Wars: States, Surrogates and the Use of Force
(Potomac Books, 2010), Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe
Havens (Praeger, 2007), and Bosnian Security After Dayton: New
Perspectives (Routledge, 2006). He sits on the editorial board of the
Taylor and Francis journal Civil Wars, edits the new Hurst & Co.
Publishers series Insurgent Landscapes, directs The Complex Terrain Laboratory, a
virtual media lab, and authors the blog Monkwire.
His book, The Sanctuary Complex (Hurst & Co. Publishers), will be
published in 2010.
