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Kimberly Marten
Kimberly Marten is a professor and the chair of the political science department at Barnard College, and directs the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. She is the author of "Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States" (Cornell, 2012).