Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Assistant Director: Kimberly Nolan
Program Coordinator: Megan van Frank
Research Assistant: Susan Sanders
Program Assistant: Barry Cohen
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 1991 Session Overview
“For me, the program provided a refreshing dose of thinking without the traditional bureaucratic hindrances. Fellows and faculty inspired a quality of thinking difficult to match in the world of deadlines and resource constraints.”
Lt Gen Ervin Rokke, USAF (Ret.) Former President of the National Defense University
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| August 13, 1990 | Introduction | Dr. Condoleezza Rice |
| September 7, 1990 | Soviet Union | Dr. Paul Goble, Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Prof. Robert Legvold, Prof. Stephen Meyer, Dr. Vladmir Pechatnov, Dr. Jacques Rupnik, Prof. Mark Saroyan, Prof. Jadwiga Staniszkis |
| October 1, 1990 | Europe 1992 | Prof. Peter Hall, Dr. Josef Joffe |
| November 5, 1990 | Iran and Islam | Prof. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Gary Sick |
| December 3, 1990 | China | Dr. Harry Harding, Prof. Lucian Pye |
| February 1, 1991 | Japan and the Pacific | Prof. Linda Lim, Prof. Mike Mochizuki, Prof. Gregory W. Noble, Prof. T.J. Pempel, Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. Robert Smith, Amb. Koji Watanabe |
| March 4, 1991 | India | Prof. Bhabani Sen Gupta |
| April 1, 1991 | Latin America | Prof. Richard Joseph, Prof. Terry Karl |
| May 10, 1991 | Trade, Technology, and Security | Jonathan E. Cornell, Dr. Janne E. Nolan, Kyle Olson, Dr. Sylvia Ostry, Clyde Prestowitz, Amb. Koji Watanabe, Prof. John Zysman |
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