Paul B. Stares

Paul B. Stares On November 8, 2007 Paul became the new director of the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) replacing William L. Nash.

"Stares joins the Council after five years with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where he was vice president and director of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, focusing on northeast Asian security issues, U.S. counterterrorism policy, and conflict prevention strategies. In 2006, Stares led the Iraq Study Group’s Strategic Environment Expert Working Group.

"Prior to joining USIP, he was the associate director and senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has held posts as a senior research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and then as director of studies at the Japan Center for International Exchange.  Stares has also been a senior fellow and research associate in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, as well as a NATO fellow, a scholar-in-residence at the MacArthur Foundation–Moscow Office, a Rockefeller International Relations Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.  He has authored or edited nine books in addition to numerous book chapters, articles, and op-eds in leading U.S. and European newspapers."


 * Core Member, International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy

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