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Jessica Rose Piombo

Associate Professor
National Security Affairs

Phone: (831) 656-2831
NPS Experience
  • 2002 - current: Associate Professor
Other Experience
  • 2000 - 2001 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
  • 2000 - 2000 Senior Research Assistant, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Worked for the Committee on International Strategic Studies
  • 1999 - 2000 Election Monitor, South Africa, 1999 National/Provincial and 2000 Local Elections
  • 1997 - 2001 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
  • 1997 - 1997 Field Research in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Research Interests
Transitional Regimes
Statebuilding
Peacebuilding
African Politics and Security
Teaching Interests
African Politics
Comparative Politics
Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
U.S. Interests in Africa

Awards

  • 2001 - World Learning Democracy Fellow
  • 2000 - 1999 Competition Grant Recipient, Irving Louis Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
  • 2000 - Carroll L. Wilson Award, Carroll L. Wilson Foundation
  • 1999 - American Political Science Association Advanced Graduate Student Travel Award
  • 1999 - National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation
  • 1998 - Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) summer grant, University of California at Berkeley
  • 1997 - Ford Foundation Summer Development Grant
  • 1996 - National Science Foundation Democratization Traineeship Fellowship, National Science Foundation
  • 1995 - Haverford College Herman Somers Award

Boards, Memberships, & Certifications

Professional Memberships
  • 2004 International Studies Association
  • 2001 African Studies Association
  • 1995 American Political Science Association

Scholarly Work

Publications
  • Book Chapters
  • Piombo, J. R, (2012). Oil Rents and Political Power in Africa. Routledge.
  • Piombo, J. R, (2010). Military provision of humanitarian and civic assistance: a day in the life of a civil affairs team in the Horn of Africa. Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University.
  • Books
  • Piombo, J. R, (2015). The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development? Boulder, Co United States: Lynne Rienner Publishers (First Forum Press).
  • Piombo, J. R, (2015). The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development? Boulder, Co United States: Lynne Rienner Publishers (First Forum Press).
  • Piombo, J. R., & Nijzink, L, (2005). Electoral politics in South Africa: Assessing the first democratic decade. Springer.
  • Piombo, J. R., Guttieri, K., & Zellen, B, (2005). Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy?
  • Piombo, J. R, (2004). Political Institutions, Social Demographics and the Decline of Ethnic Mobilisation in South Africa, 1994-1999. University of Cape Town.
  • Journal Articles
  • Piombo, J. R., & Englebert, P, (2022). The war on terror in context: domestic dimensions of Ethiopia and Kenya’s policies towards Somalia. Third World Quarterly.
  • Piombo, J. R., Barma, N., & Lev, (2020). The Impact of Aid Dynamics on State Effectiveness and Legitimacy. Studies in Comparative International Development, 55, 184–203.
  • Barma, N. H., & Piombo, J. R, (2017). Disentangling Aid Dynamics in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding: A Causal Framework. International Peacekeeping.
  • Piombo, J. R., & Africa, C, (2016). Has South Africa Lost its Way? The ANC’s Unfulfilled Promise. Foreign Affairs.
  • Piombo, J. R, (2012). US Africa Policy: Rhetoric Versus Reality. Current History, 745(111), 194.
  • Piombo, J. R, (2010). Peacemaking in Burundi: Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Management Strategies. African security, 4(3), 239--272.
  • Piombo, J. R, (2008). Ungoverned Spaces and Weapons of Mass Destruction in Africa: Exploring the Potential for Terrorist Exploitation.
  • Piombo, J. R, (2005). Political parties, social demographics and the decline of ethnic mobilization in South Africa, 1994-99. Party Politics, 4(11), 447--470.
  • Mattes, R., & Piombo, J. R, (2001). Opposition parties and the voters in South Africa's general election of 1999. Democratization, 3(8), 101--128.