Naazneen H. Barma is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Her research and teaching focus on the political economy of development, international interventions in post-conflict states, and natural resource governance, with a regional specialization in East Asia and the Pacific. Prior to joining the faculty at NPS, Dr. Barma was a Young Professional and Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank, where she conducted political economy analysis and worked on operational dimensions of governance and institutional reform in the East Asia Pacific Region. She has over fifteen years of full-time and consulting experience with the World Bank and other aid agencies.
Dr. Barma has recently completed a book manuscript on peacebuilding and political order in post-conflict developing countries, with a focus on Afghanistan, Cambodia, and East Timor. She is currently working on a collaborative research project, funded by the Minerva Initiative, that examines the relationship between state-building and peace-building through the lens of public service delivery in Cambodia, Laos, and Uganda.
Dr. Barma’s peer-reviewed academic research has been published in several refereed journals and edited volumes. She is co-author of Rents to Riches? The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development (World Bank, 2011), as well as co-editor of Institutions Taking Root: Building State Capacity in Challenging Contexts (World Bank, 2014) and The Political Economy Reader: Markets as Institutions (Routledge, 2008). She has also co-authored policy-oriented pieces on global political economic order that have appeared in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest.
Dr. Barma received her PhD (2007) and MA (2002) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. For her dissertation project, she won a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship from the United States Institute of Peace. She earned both her BA (1996) in International Relations and Economics and her MA (1997) in International Policy Studies from Stanford University. She is a founding member and co-director of Bridging the Gap, an initiative devoted to enhancing the policy impact of contemporary international affairs scholarship.
Dr. Barma has recently completed a book manuscript on peacebuilding and political order in post-conflict developing countries, with a focus on Afghanistan, Cambodia, and East Timor. She is currently working on a collaborative research project, funded by the Minerva Initiative, that examines the relationship between state-building and peace-building through the lens of public service delivery in Cambodia, Laos, and Uganda.
Dr. Barma’s peer-reviewed academic research has been published in several refereed journals and edited volumes. She is co-author of Rents to Riches? The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development (World Bank, 2011), as well as co-editor of Institutions Taking Root: Building State Capacity in Challenging Contexts (World Bank, 2014) and The Political Economy Reader: Markets as Institutions (Routledge, 2008). She has also co-authored policy-oriented pieces on global political economic order that have appeared in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest.
Dr. Barma received her PhD (2007) and MA (2002) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. For her dissertation project, she won a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship from the United States Institute of Peace. She earned both her BA (1996) in International Relations and Economics and her MA (1997) in International Policy Studies from Stanford University. She is a founding member and co-director of Bridging the Gap, an initiative devoted to enhancing the policy impact of contemporary international affairs scholarship.
