Program Director: Kelly M. Greenhill
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: TBD
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 2026 Session Overview
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2025 | Introductory Session | Richard Danzig |
| October 3, 2025 | Identity Politics, Nationalism and Conflict | Scott Appleby, Alexander de Waal, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Ron Hassner, Janet Lewis, Oxana Shevel, Ömer Taşpınar, Richard Wilcox, Steven Wilkinson |
| November 3, 2025 | Realism, Liberalism and Implications for US-China Relations | John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik |
| December 1, 2025 | US Alliances and Partnerships in a Time of Transition | Liana Fix, Richard Samuels, Clint Work |
| January 5, 2026 | Emerging Technologies | Kevin M. Esvelt, Erik Lin-Greenberg, Kenneth Oye |
| January 30, 2026 | National Economies in a Globalized World | Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alexander de Waal, Daniel Drezner, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Luis Videgaray, Edward You |
| March 2, 2026 | Border Security and Non-Military Challenges: Illicit Flows, Migration, and US-Latin American Relations | Kelly M. Greenhill, Chappell Lawson, Andrew Selee |
| March 30, 2026 | Israel, Iran and Shifting Dynamics in the Middle East | Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs |
| May 1, 2026 | US National Security Policy | Daniel Byman, Fiona Cunningham, Keir Lieber, Vipin Narang, Abraham Newman, Daryl Press, Brian Taylor |
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