Program Director: Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Barry Posen, Prof. Myron Weiner
Program Coordinator: Kelly M. Greenhill
Program Assistant: Judith A. Geiger
Research Assistants: Brian Hanson, P.R. Goldstone
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 1997 Session Overview
“First and foremost, I encountered an extraordinary circle of colleagues, many of whom remain good friends today. In addition to friendships, I took away the solid underpinnings of how the world of foreign policy works. All in all, a marvelous opportunity.”
VADM Jim Stavridis, USN Sr Mil Asst to SecDef
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 9, 1996 | Introduction | Dr. Richard Solomon |
| October 4, 1996 | Ethnic Conflict | Dr. Aleksa Djilas, Dr. Paul Goble, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney |
| November 4, 1996 | Islam and the Turkish Experience | Prof. Feroz Ahmad, Prof. Lisa Anderson |
| December 9, 1996 | Democratization | Dr. Larry Diamond, Prof. Lucian Pye |
| January 6, 1997 | Democratization and War | Prof. Jack Snyder, Prof. Stephen Van Evera |
| January 31, 1997 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Richard K. Betts, Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Prof. Jack Snyder, Prof. Stephen Walt |
| March 3, 1997 | Nuclear Proliferation | Prof. Scott Sagan, Prof. Kenneth Waltz |
| April 7, 1997 | Economics and Security | Prof. Robert Z. Lawrence, Clyde Prestowitz |
| May 3, 1997 | Regional Integration | Prof. Suzanne Berger, Prof. Denise Dresser, Prof. Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof. Robert Pastor, Prof. Edward Steinfeld, Amb. Koji Watanabe, Prof. Hai Wen |
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