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Kimberly J. Marten
Professor of Political Science
Chair of the Department of Political Science
Kimberly J. Marten, professor of political science and chair of the department of political science, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1997. Professor Marten teaches such courses as "International Politics," "Russia and the West," and "Political Violence and Terrorism." She is also affiliated with Barnard's human rights studies program, Columbia's Harriman Institute, and Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Professor Marten's research interests include international security (especially peace and stability operations and state-building) and the politics of the post-Soviet space. A recent project studied foreign investment in the post-Soviet petroleum industry. Her current work focuses on warlordism and how to overcome it.
She has written three books and numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. Her first book, Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, received the 1993 Marshall Shulman Prize. Her most recent book, Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past, received the 2004 Political Science Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine.
Professor Marten's research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Government of Canada, and the Council on Foreign Relations/Hitachi Corporation, among others. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control; a visiting scholar at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and at the Institute for International Policy Studies (Nakasone Institute), Tokyo; and a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Selected Publications
"Statebuilding and Force: The Proper Role of Foreign Militaries," Journal of Intervention and State-Building 1 (June 2007)
"Russian Efforts to Control Kazakhstan's Oil: The Kumkol Case," Post-Soviet Affairs 23 (Jan.-Mar. 2007)
"Is Stability the Answer?" in Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, ed. P. Aall, C. A. Crocker and F. O. Hampson (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007)
"Warlordism in Comparative Perspective," International Security 31 (Winter 2006/7)
"Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa's Anti-Militarism" (with A. Cooley), Armed Forces and Society 32 (July 2006)
Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004)
"Defending against Anarchy: From War to Peacekeeping in Afghanistan," The Washington Quarterly 26 (Winter 2002/3)
"Japan's United Nations Peacekeeping Dilemma," Asia-Pacific Review 8 (May 2001)
Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science
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EDUCATION:
A.B., Harvard University
Ph.D., Stanford University
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