Center for Preventive Action Contingency Roundtable Series
Director: Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
March 2009 - Present
This monthly meeting series seeks to organize focused discussions on plausible short to medium term contingencies that could seriously threaten U.S. interests. Contingency meeting topics will range from specific states or regions of concern to more thematic issues and will draw on the expertise of government and nongovernment experts. The goal of the meeting series is not only to raise awareness of U.S. government officials and the expert community to potential crises but also to generate practical policy options to lessen the likelihood of the contingency and to reduce the negative consequences should it occur. A summary memo of the resulting recommendations will be distributed to participants and important policymakers.
This series is made possible by the generous support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Summary Memoranda
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Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Political Instability in Jordan
Speakers:
Robert Satloff, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, David Schenker, The Washington Institute for Near East PolicyPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Preventing Chemical Weapon Use in Syria
Speakers:
Michael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow and Director of the military and security studies program, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Leonard S. Spector, Deputy Director, Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Paul B. Stares, eneral John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Electoral-related Violence in Kenya
Speaker:
Joel D. Barkan, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International StudiesPresider:
Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention and director of the Center for Preventative Action, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Violent Instability in Venezuela
Speaker:
Patrick D. Duddy, Duke UniversityPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Post-U.S. Instability in Iraq
Speaker:
Douglas A. Ollivant, New America FoundationPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Managing a Fractured Syria
February 14, 2012
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Rising Tension in the Eastern Mediterranean
November 2, 2011
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Hitting the Homeland: Pakistan-based Terrorist
Speakers:
Stephen Tankel, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Shuja Nawaz, Atlantic CouncilPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Eurozone Default Crisis
Speaker:
Richard Madsen, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Post-Qaddafi Instability in Libya
Speaker:
Daniel Serwer, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International StudiesPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Pakistan-based Terrorist Attack on the United States
Speaker:
Steven Simon, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
U.S.-PRC Military Incident
Speaker:
Michael A. McDevitt, USN (Ret.), CNA Strategic StudiesPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
New Challenges in the Congo
Speaker:
John Marks, National Endowment for DemocracyPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Military Escalation in Korea
September 8, 2010
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
A Third Lebanon War?
Speaker:
Daniel C. Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
A Coup in Nigeria
April 19, 2010
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Prospects for Violent Instability in Iran
Speaker:
Michael Singh, Washington Institute for Near East PolicyPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Renewed Conflict in Sudan
January 14, 2010
This meeting is not for attribution.
Speakers:
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, CFR, Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention, CFRThis meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFRPresider:
Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention, CFRThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Ukraine at Risk
Speaker:
Steven Pifer, Brookings InstitutionPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Now Out of Never? Stability and Instability in Egypt
May 5, 2009
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Potential Reversal in Iraq
April 9, 2009
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Dollar Crisis Contingency
Speaker:
Brad W. Setser, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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