April 2002
Vol. VIII, No.3

The Institute Welcomes New Directors

The Institute welcomes ambassador Richard D. Kauzlarich as director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World and Paul B. Stares as director of the Research and Studies Program.

Kauzlarich served as U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997–99, and Azerbaijan in 1994–97. He was senior deputy to the secretary of state's and the president's special representative to the Newly Independent States in 1993–94. And he was deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European Affairs in 1991–93, responsible for relations with the former Soviet Union and economic ties with the European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.

Kauzlarich also served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in 1984–86, during which time he was in charge of relations with the technical and specialized agencies of the United Nations. He was also deputy director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1986–89, handling global and international economic issues. In addition to his ambassadorial assignments, Kauzlarich served at American embassies in Ethiopia, Israel, and Togo. In December 2001, the Century Foundation published his report "Time for Change? U.S. Policy in the Trans-caucasus." Kauzlarich received his B.A. from Valparaiso University and M.A.'s from Indiana University and the University of Michigan.

Stares comes to the Institute from Stanford University, where he was associate director and senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Before joining CISAC in 2000, Stares served as director of studies at the Japan Center for International Exchange in Tokyo. In 1996–98, he was a senior research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and, in 1989–96, a senior fellow in Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy Studies Program.

Stares has held a rich variety of fellowships—including at NATO, the MacArthur Foundation's Moscow Office, and the Rockefeller Foundation—and has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Sussex, and the University of Lancaster in Great Britain.

As director of Research and Studies, Stares will design, direct, and supervise research projects on a broad range of issues related to international conflict management and peacebuilding. The program's mission is to broaden the range of nonmilitary policy options available to government officials and to bridge the all-too-frequent gap between academia, the policy-analysis community, and government, by convening meetings of academics, think-tank analysts, and former officials with current policymakers.

Stares has written or edited nine books and numerous articles on a variety of security-related issues, including the award-winning Global Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. at Lancaster University in his native Great Britain.

William Drennan, who has been serving as acting director of the program, will become deputy director, with responsibility for Asian issues.