Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Kristen Jamison
Research Assistants: Colin Jackson, Joshua Rovner
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 2006 Session Overview
“The lively exchange of views among participants from various agencies and guest lecturers has sharpened my understanding of the issues that command our attention today. Seminar XXI also allowed me to familiarize my colleagues with USAID’s capabilities and perspectives.”
Elisabeth Kvitashvili Director, Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, USAID
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 12, 2005 | Introduction | Hon. Andrew S. Natsios |
| September 30, 2005 | Ethnic and Religious Conflict | Prof. Scott Appleby, Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Chaim Kaufmann, Prof. Roger Petersen, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Prof. Stephen Van Evera |
| November 7, 2005 | Israel and Palestine | Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Khalil Shikaki |
| December 5, 2005 | Terrorism and Counterterrorism | Prof. Bruce Hoffman, Prof. Louise Richardson |
| January 3, 2006 | Realism, Liberalism, and the Future of World Politics | Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik |
| January 27, 2006 | National Economies in a Globalizing World | Prof. Rawi Abdelal, Kimberly Elliott, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Dr. Steven Radelet, Prof. Robert Rotberg, Dr. Adam Segal |
| March 6, 2006 | State Building and Iraq | Prof. James Dobbins, Dr. Kenneth Pollack |
| April 3, 2006 | Democratization | Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Habib Malik |
| April 28, 2006 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Robert Art, Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. David Kang, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Christopher Layne, Prof. Keir A. Lieber, Lord John Roper, Prof. Robert Ross, Prof. Leonard Schoppa, Prof. Stephen Walt |
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