General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Expert on emerging sources of regional instability and violent conflict. Currently focusing on U.S. preventive strategies to meet future challenges to international peace and security. Coauthoring a Council Special Report on enhancing international preventive action.
Expertise:
U.S. national security policy; early warning issues; contingency planning; conflict prevention strategies; transnational threats; weak/fragile states; Northeast Asia security.
Douglas Dillon Fellow
Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching and writing on enhancing the capacity for preventive action within international institutions, and on assessing deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. His book Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World was released in August 2010.
Expertise:
Conflict prevention; U.S. national security policy; military planning and operations; nuclear weapons policy.
Assistant Director, Center for Preventive Action
Research Associate, Center for Preventive Action
Research Associate, Center for Preventive Action
For more conflict prevention analysis, visit CFR's Center for Preventive Action.
Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action
In this CSR, coauthored by Paul B. Stares and Micah Zenko sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, evaluates the U.S. system for foreseeing and heading off crises and assesses in detail current U.S. practices with regard to different types of preventive action. More
Somalia: A New Approach
This report, authored by Bronwyn E. Bruton and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, argues that the current U.S. policy of supporting the TFG is unlikely to succeed and ineffective foreign meddling threatens to prolong and worsen the conflict. Instead, the United States should pursue a strategy of "constructive disengagement" while still maintaining support for localized development initiatives and humanitarian assistance. More
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