Scholar Details

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Area of expertise: Peacebuilding; statebuilding; governance and public sector reform in fragile states; natural resource governance; political economy of development; East Asia and the Pacific; Afghanistan

Policy Area: Peacebuilding; statebuilding; governance and public sector reform in fragile states; natural resource governance; political economy of development; East Asia and the Pacific; Afghanistan

Teaching: Comparative Political Economy

East Asian Political Economy

Political Economy of Development

Recent Publications: Institutions Taking Root: Building State Capacity in Challenging Contexts. Washington DC: World Bank, 2014. (co-edited with Elisabeth Huybens and Lorena Viñuela)

“The Rentier State at Work: Comparative Experiences of the Resource Curse in East Asia and the Pacific.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 1(2), May 2014: 257–272.

“Peacebuilding and the Predatory Political Economy of Insecurity: Evidence from Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan.” Conflict, Security & Development 12(3). July 2012: 273–298.

“Petroleum, Governance, and Fragility: The Micro Politics of Petroleum in Post-Conflict States.” in Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov, eds. Beyond the Resource Curse. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Rents to Riches? The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development. Washington DC: World Bank, 2012. (with Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le, and Lorena Viñuela)