Guide to Specialists

Paul B. Stares
Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention

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Paul B. Stares is vice president of USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. He currently focuses on northeast Asian security issues, U.S. post-conflict stability operations, and counterterrorism policy. He has authored or edited nine books in addition to numerous book chapters, articles, and op-eds in leading U.S. and European newspapers. In 2006, Stares led the Iraq Study Group’s Strategic Environment Expert Working Group.

Prior to joining USIP in 2002, Stares was associate director and senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. From 1996 to 2000 he worked in Japan, first 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. At various times, Stares has 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 also held academic posts at the University of Sussex and the University of Lancaster in Great Britain, where he received his Ph.D.

Publications:

• "Rethinking the 'War on Terror:' New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World," Leasing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World USIP Press (2007)
• To Ban the Bomb, Sign the Peace
  Op-Ed (The New York Times, January 2007).
• "Unconventional Approaches to an Unconventional Threat: A Counter-Epidemic Strategy," in Mapping the Jihadist Threat: The War on Terror Since 9/11 (The Aspen Institute, June 2006).
• Rethinking the War on Terror
  Peace Watch (April/May 2006).
• Rethinking the War on Terror with Mona Yacoubian
  USIPeace Briefing (September 2005).
• Terrorism as Virus with Mona Yacoubian, The Washington Post (August 23, 2005).
• Rethinking Energy Security in East Asia (2000).
• The New Security Agenda: A Global Survey (1998).
• Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World (1996).