Paul B. Stares
Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
Northeast Asia | Japan | Arms Control and Nonproliferation | Coercive Diplomacy | NATO |
Peacekeeping/Stability Operations | Terrorism/Counterterrorism
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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.
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