Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Phaedra McLaurin
Research Assistants: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Joshua Rovner
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 2005 Session Overview
“Seminar XXI exposes participants to the context–the history and theory–of current events in the international security arena. It was an exceptional broadening experience, opening my aperture to the diverse thinking and worldviews of the speakers and, as important, the mental models of the other participants.”
Stephen B. Wehrenberg Director, Future Force and Director, Executive Development, US Coast Guard
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 13, 2004 | Introductory Session | Prof. Paul Kennedy |
| October 1, 2004 | Ethnic and Religious Conflict | Prof. Scott Appleby, Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Roger Petersen, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Stephen Van Evera |
| November 1, 2004 | Democratization | Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Mike McFaul |
| December 6, 2004 | State Building & Iraq | Dr. James Dobbins, Dr. Kenneth Pollack |
| January 3, 2005 | Realism, Liberalism, and the Future of World Politics | Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik |
| January 28, 2005 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Robert Art, Dr. Thomas Barnett, Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Amb. Martin Indyk, Prof. David Kang, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Barry Posen, Lord John Roper, Prof. Richard Samuels, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Prof. Stephen Walt |
| March 7, 2005 | South Asia | Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Marvin Weinbaum |
| April 4, 2005 | Terrorism and Homeland Security | Prof. Bruce Hoffman, Prof. Louise Richardson |
| April 29, 2005 | National Economies in a Globalizing World | Dr. Anders Aslund, Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Dr. Steven Radelet, Prof. Robert Rotberg, Prof. Edward Steinfeld |
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