Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Theresa Chiu
Research Assistants: Jennifer Lind, Daniel Metz
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim
Class of 2003 Session Overview
“Stimulating, challenging, engaging, and rewarding describe what the Seminar XXI experience is for the lucky participants from many government agencies.”
VADM John Cotton, USNR Chief of Naval Reserve
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Program Director and Staff
| Session Date | Participating Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2002 | Introduction | Amb. Thomas Pickering |
| September 28, 2002 | Ethnic Conflict | Dr. Daniel Byman, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Chaim Kaufmann, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Stephen Van Evera |
| November 4, 2002 | Religion and Politics | Prof. Ian Lustick, Dr. Olivier Roy |
| December 7, 2002 | The Persian Gulf | Dr. Ken Pollack, Prof. William Quandt |
| January 6, 2003 | Realism, Liberalism, and Europe | Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik |
| January 31, 2003 | US National Security Policy | Prof. Robert Art, Prof. Victor Cha, Dr. Shai Feldman, Prof. Avery Goldstein, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Lord John Roper, Prof. Richard Samuels, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Prof. Stephen Walt |
| March 3, 2003 | South Asia | Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Juan Cole |
| April 7, 2003 | Terrorism and Homeland Security | Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Bruce Hoffman |
| May 2, 2003 | National Economies in a Globalizing World | Dr. Anders Aslund, Dr. Patrick Cronin, Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Robert Rotberg, Prof. Edward Steinfeld |
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