Class of 2017 Session Overview

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Program Director and Staff

Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: Timothy McDonnell
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

Session Date Participating Faculty
September 8, 2016 2016 Introductory Session & Alumni Reunion James Dobbins
September 30, 2016 Religion, Identity Politics, and Civil Wars Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, William McCants, Kenneth Pollack, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky
November 7, 2016 Iran, Turkey, and Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
December 8, 2016 Japan, Europe, and South Korea - Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
January 3, 2017 Realism, Liberalism, and U.S.-China Relations John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik
February 3, 2017 National Economies and Transnational Forces in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Joel Brenner, Sarah Chayes, Benjamin Cohen, Alex de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, James Kunder, Herb Lin, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
March 6, 2017 Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
April 3, 2017 Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
April 28, 2017 US National Security Policy Deborah Avant, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Layne, Keir Lieber, Vipin Narang, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Caitlin Talmadge, Jim Walsh

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