 | Preventive Engagement: How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace Subjects: Conflict management; Peace-building; War -- Prevention; Conflict management -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- Military policy; National security -- United States; Security International; Conflict management -- Interna; Paul B. Stares proposes an innovative and timely strategy to resolve America's foreign-policy predicament based on forging "preventive partnerships" and becoming less shortsighted and reactive. Preventive Engagement provides a detailed and comprehensive blueprint for the United States to shape the future and reduce the potential dangers ahead. Stares Paul : Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 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. He is the author of The Militarization of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-1984 (Cornell University Press, 1985), Space and National Security (Brookings Institution Press, 1987), Command Performance: The Neglected Dimension of European Security (Brookings Institution Press, 1991), and Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World (Brookings Institution Press, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of The New Germany and the New Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 1992), The New Security Agenda: A Global Survey (Brookings Institution Press, 1998), Rethinking Energy Security in East Asia (Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000), Guidance for Governance: Comparing Alternative Sources of Public Policy Advice (Japan Center for International Exchange, 2001), and Diasporas in Conflict: Peace-Makers or Peace-Wreckers? (United Nations University Press, 2007).Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The author or editor of nine books on U.S. security policy and international relations as well as a regular commentator on current affairs, Stares has worked at leading think tanks and universities in the United States, Britain, and Japan. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area. |
