Class of 2019 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: Rachel Tecott
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

Session Date Participating Faculty
September 5, 2018 Introduction Session Thomas Christensen
September 28, 2018 Religion, Identity Politics & Civil War Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky, Monica Toft
November 5, 2018 Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
November 29, 2018 Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
January 3, 2019 Cybersecurity & Biosecurity Joel Brenner, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
February 1, 2019 National Economies & Transnational Factors in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alex de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
February 28, 2019 Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
April 1, 2019 Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
April 26, 2019 US National Security Policy Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Barry Posen, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Jim Walsh

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