Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Assistant Director: Kimberly Nolan
Program Coordinator: Megan van Frank
Research Assistant: Jonah Levy
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 1989 Session Overview
“As a spear carrier on the Joint Staff, I found the sessions of Seminar XXI a terrific way to get an alternative view of what we were doing in the Pentagon.”
GEN Montgomery Meigs, USA (Ret.) Former CINC US Army, Europe
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| July 25, 1988 | Introduction | Prof. Samuel Huntington |
| September 9, 1988 | Soviet Union | Dr. Ed A. Hewett, Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Prof. Gail Lapidus, Prof. Robert Legvold, Prof. Stephen Meyer, Prof. Victor Zaslavsky |
| October 3, 1988 | Western Europe | Pierre Hassner, Dr. Josef Joffe |
| November 7, 1988 | Japan | Prof. Richard Samuels, Amb. Koji Watanabe |
| December 5, 1988 | Iran and Islam | Prof. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Gary Sick |
| January 9, 1989 | South Africa | Michael Clough, Moeletsi Mbeki |
| February 13, 1989 | China | Prof. Lucian Pye, Dr. Richard Solomon |
| March 6, 1989 | India | Prof. Ashis Nandy, Prof. Myron Weiner |
| April 3, 1989 | Central America | Elliot Abrams, Prof. Terry Karl |
| May 12, 1989 | Trade, Technology, and Security | Dr. Mary Good, Hiroo Kinoshita, Robert McCormack, Clyde Prestowitz, Prof. Lothar Rühl, Prof. Richard Samuels, Amb. Koji Watanabe, Prof. John Zysman |
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