Class of 2020 Session Overview

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Program Director and Staff

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 4, 2019 Introductory Session Peter W. Singer
October 4, 2019 Religion, Identity Politics, & Civil Wars Scott Appleby, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik, Kenneth Pollack, Gerard Prunier
November 5, 2019 Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
December 5, 2019 Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels, Andrew Yeo
January 6, 2020 Cybersecurity & Biosecurity Joel Brenner, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
January 31, 2020 National Economies & Transnational Factors in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alex de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Luis Videgaray, Edward You
March 3, 2020 Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
April 7, 2020 Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
May 1, 2020 Pandemic & Covid-19 Nancy Connell, Alex de Waal, Sumit Ganguly, Gigi Gronvall, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Murray Lumpkin, Suzanne Maloney, Daryl Press, Adam Segal

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