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General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Expert on emerging regional and international security challenges. Led the bipartisan Genocide Prevention Task Force's Expert Group on Preventive Diplomacy. Currently focusing on future conflict trends and associated prevention strategies.
Expertise:
U.S. national security policy, conflict prevention strategies, U.S. counterterrorism policy, Northeast Asia security
Fellow for Conflict Prevention
National security analyst with a PhD in political science from Brandeis University. Currently researching and writing on the prevention of violent conflict and turning his dissertation on limited uses of military force into a book.
Expertise:
Conflict prevention; U.S. national security policy; military planning and operations; nuclear weapons policy.
Research Associate
Research Associate
Research Associate
This CSR, authored by Steven Pifer and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, comprehensively analyzes Ukraine's difficulties, related to both domestic conditions and foreign policy, and recommends ways for the United States to encourage Ukraine on a path of stability and integration with the West.
This report, coauthored by Paul Stares and Joel Wit and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, examines the possible outcomes the United States must consider should the situation in North Korea deteriorate and the current North Korean government collapse.
For more information on the CPA, contact:
Paul Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention
and Director, Center for Preventive Action
+1.202.509.8461
pstares@cfr.org
Micah Zenko
Fellow for Conflict Prevention
+1.212.434.9845
mzenko@cfr.org
Elise Vaughan
Research Associate
+1.202.509.8463
evaughan@cfr.org
Stephen Wittels
Research Associate
+1.202.509.8524
swittels@cfr.org
Rebecca Friedman
Research Associate
+1.212.434.9744
rfriedman@cfr.org
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