Naman Habtom is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and a foreign and security policy researcher, writer, and editor. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, where he focused on contemporary European military and diplomatic history. 

He has held guest research positions at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm University, Université libre de Bruxelles, and the University of Luxembourg, where he researched European security and foreign policy during the Yugoslav wars as well as foreign fighters.

His writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, Survival, and other publications. In 2024, he edited an academic volume titled Neutrality After 1989: New Paths in the Post–Cold War World, featuring multiple case studies on the rise and fall of neutrality in Europe and Asia over the preceding three decades. He is currently serving as an executive editor for a three-volume series on the study of neutrality in a project financed by Kyoto University. Additionally, Habtom is an editorial consultant for Brown University’s Costs of War project.