Program Directors: Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Myron Weiner
Program Coordinator: Amy Tarr
Program Assistants: Talia Kingsbury, Christine Vos
Research Assistants: P.R. Goldstone, Sarah Lisher
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 1999 Session Overview
“Seminar XXI is the ultimate intellectual candy store... a first-class short course in strategic thinking.”
LTC James Carafano, USA (Ret.) Sr Research Fellow, Homeland Security, Heritage Foundation
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 1998 | Introduction | Sen. Richard G. Lugar |
| October 2, 1998 | Ethnic Conflict | Dr. Aleksa Djilas, Dr. Paul Goble, Prof. Eric Morris, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Robert Price, Prof. Filip Reyntjens, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney, Prof. Myron Weiner |
| November 2, 1998 | Islam and Iran | Prof. John Esposito, Dr. Gary Sick |
| December 7, 1998 | Democratization | Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Peter Stavrakis |
| January 4, 1999 | The Future of Eurasian Security | Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik |
| January 30, 1999 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Richard K. Betts, Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Kenneth Pollack, Prof. Jack Snyder, Prof. Stephen Van Evera, Prof. Stephen Walt |
| March 1, 1999 | Nuclear Proliferation | Prof. Scott Sagan, Prof. Kenneth Waltz |
| April 5, 1999 | Terrorism | Dr. Richard Falkenrath, Prof. Louise Richardson |
| May 1, 1999 | Global and Regional Integration | Prof. Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof. Robert Lieber, Prof. Sylvia Maxfield, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Carmen Reinhart, Prof. Edward Steinfeld, Prof. Makoto Taniguchi |
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