Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Assistant Director: Kimberly Nolan
Research Assistants: Jonah Levy, Dale Murphy
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 1990 Session Overview
“The years 1989–1990 were one of those periods in history when cataclysmic geopolitical changes occurred. Seminar XXI brilliantly provided a framework that enabled us to understand what was occurring and to navigate those chaotic times.”
Stu Starr Former Director of Plans, MITRE Corp.; Sr Research Fellow, NDU
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| August 3, 1989 | Introduction | Dr. Condoleezza Rice |
| September 8, 1989 | Soviet Union | Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Dr. Ed A. Hewett, Prof. Robert Legvold, Prof. Stephen Meyer, Dr. Vladmir Pechatnov, Dr. Aleksander Smolar |
| October 2, 1989 | Western Europe 1992 | Dr. Josef Joffe, Dr. Dominique Moise |
| November 6, 1989 | Iran and Islam | Prof. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Gary Sick |
| December 4, 1989 | China | Dr. Harry Harding, Prof. Lucian Pye |
| January 8, 1990 | Japan | Prof. Richard Samuels, Amb. Koji Watanabe |
| February 12, 1990 | South Africa | Michael Clough, Khehla Shubane |
| March 5, 1990 | India | Prof. Bhabani Sen Gupta, Prof. Myron Weiner |
| April 2, 1990 | Central America | Elliot Abrams, Prof. Terry Karl |
| April 27, 1990 | Trade, Technology, and Security | Prof. Jamos Kornai, Prof. Richard Lester, Robert McCormack, Yukio Okamoto, Clyde Prestowitz, Dr. Jacques Rupnik, Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. Laura d’Andrea Tyson, Dr. Michiyuki Uenohara |
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