Class of 2021 Session Overview

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Program Director and Staff

Program Director: Ken Oye
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: Rachel Tecott
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

Session Date Participating Faculty
September 8, 2020 Introductory Session (Virtual Meeting) Richard Clarke
October 3, 2020 Disintegration: Ethnic, Religious & Ideational Identities, & Conflict (Virtual Meeting) Scott Appleby, Aleksa Djilas, Page Fortna, Ron Hassner, Ram Manikkalingam, Zoe Marks, James Millward, Melissa Nobles, Kenneth Oye, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky, Stephen Van Evera
October 19, 2020 Liberalism, Realism and Interstate Conflict with reference to US-China Relations (Virtual Meeting) John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik
November 2, 2020 Iran, Turkey & Israel (Virtual Meeting) Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
November 17, 2020 Democratization & Authoritarianism in the Arab World (Virtual Meeting) Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
December 3, 2020 Pandemic Security and COVID-19 (Virtual Meeting) Nancy Connell, Gigi Gronvall, Murray Lumpkin
December 15, 2020 Climate Change (Virtual Meeting) John Deutch, David Keith, Maria Zuber
January 5, 2021 Cybersecurity & Biosecurity (Virtual Meeting) R. David Edelman, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
January 29, 2021 National Economies in a Globalizing World (Virtual Meeting) Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alex de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Luis Videgaray
March 2, 2021 Japan, Europe & South Korea: US Allies Forever? (Virtual Meeting) Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
March 16, 2021 Latin America (Virtual Meeting) Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
April 6, 2021 Nuclear Politics (Virtual Meeting) Vipin Narang, Caitlin Talmadge, Jim Walsh
April 30, 2021 US National Security Policy (Virtual Meeting) Taylor Fravel, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Barry Posen, Daryl Press

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