Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Kristen Jamison
Research Assistants: Gabriel Rubin, Joshua Shifrinson
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 2008 Session Overview
“Seminar XXI would disappoint anyone with a senior position in the military or civilian government who thinks he's seen it all and learned it all. Over the course of the year, even the broadest thinker would be challenged by the breadth of subject matter tackled by scholars, practitioners, and seminar participants. The seminar instills in the problem solver the salutary habit of asking: is there another perspective to be considered?”
Dr. Susan Offutt Chief Economist, U.S. Government Accountability Office
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2007 | Introductory Session | Dr. Philip Zelikow |
| September 28, 2007 | Ethnic and Religious Conflict | Dr. Gerard Prunier, Prof. Scott Appleby, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Robert Art, Prof. Chaim Kaufmann, Prof. Steven Burg, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney, Prof. Jarret Brachman |
| November 5, 2007 | Iran & Turkey: Democracy & Islam | Prof. Henri Barkey, Prof. Ray Takeyh |
| December 10, 2007 | Japan & Europe — US Allies Forever? | Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. Jolyon Howorth |
| January 7, 2008 | Realism, Liberalism, and World Politics | Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Michael Doyle |
| February 1, 2008 | National Economies in a Globalizing World | Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Jomo K.S., Prof. Chappell Lawson, Ms. Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Andrew Natsios, Ms. Vanda Felbab-Brown, Prof. Adam Segal, Prof. Rawi Abdelal |
| March 3, 2008 | State Building | Prof. James Dobbins, Prof. Seth Jones |
| April 7, 2008 | Democratization | Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Tamara Wittes |
| May 2, 2008 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Robert Art, Prof. Bob Ross, Prof. Chris Layne, Prof. Keir Lieber, Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Gregory Gause, Prof. Daryl Press, Prof. Marc Lynch, Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Prof. Stacy VanDeveer, Prof. Bruce Hoffman |
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