brokers) undermine state sovereignty rather than being state-builders, and explained how states that need to cooperate with warlords (for example, on peace operations) should proceed. The book examines warlordism in the tribal areas of Pakistan, post-Soviet Georgia and Chechnya, and in Iraq during the U.S. intervention. This project led to a number of spin-off pieces. In an article in International Security she compares modern warlords in Somalia and Afghanistan to feudal lords in medieval Europe. In a later book chapter she debunks the “stationary bandit” myth, arguing that legal norms always limited and shaped European state-building in a way far different from modern warlordism. In an article in International Peacekeeping Marten details how Israeli and U.S. support for Palestinian Authority security forces has unintentionally entrenched corrupt warlordism there, and in another book chapter she describes a similar situation that limited the effectiveness of the Afghan Local Police. She has also written about warlordism and militias in Ukraine, analyzing their dangers with co-author Olga Oliker. References External links Kimberly Marten's official Barnard College web profile "How Crimea's Annexation Plays To Russians' Soviet Nostalgia" – radio interview with Marten on Fresh Air (38 mins, 2014) "A New U.S. Strategy for Russia? A Conversation with Kimberly Marten"—Council on Foreign Relations podcast (March 8, 2017) Living people Barnard College faculty Harvard University alumni Stanford University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)