Dr. Paul B. Stares will discuss the following questions: Why does the United States need to make preventive action the centerpiece of a new securitystrategy?How would such a strategy be implemented? What kinds of reforms would be needed for the United States to carry out a preventive strategy?

Dr. Paul Stares is General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for reventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Stares was the Vice President and Director of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the United States Institute of Peace. He worked as an associate director and senior research scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation from 2000 to 2002 and was a senior research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and then Director of studies at the Japan Center for International Exchange from 1996 to 2000. He was a research associate and later a senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution. He has also been a NATO fellow and a scholar-in-residence at the MacArthur Foundation's Moscow office. In addition to his work for the Council, Dr. Stares is an Adjunct Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Guest Lecturer at the London School of Economics.