Class of 1987 Session Overview

“MIT’s Seminar XXI is a winner! Few programs I have ever attended have been more meaningful in exposing me to strategic trends as well as contemporary security issues.”
LTG Daniel W. Christman, USA (Ret.)Former Superintendent, West Point, Sr VP Int Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce

Session Date Participating Faculty
- Soviet Union Dr. Jeremy Azrael, Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Prof. Robert Legvold, Prof. Condoleezza Rice, Prof. Victor Zaslavsky
Western Europe Pierre Hassner, Prof. Karl Kaiser
India Prof. Robert Hardgrave, Prof. Myron Weiner
Central America Prof. Peter Smith, Prof. Tony Smith
Libya Prof. Lisa Anderson, Prof. William Quandt
China Prof. Roderick MacFarquhar, Prof. Alan Romberg
Iran Prof. Shaul Bakhash, Prof. Bernard Lewis
Japan Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. Robert Scalapino
- Trade and Technology Admiral Bobby Inman, Brian Oakley, Prof. Michael Piore, Prof. Robert Putnam, Prof. Mitchell Wallerstein, Amb. Koji Watanabe, Prof. John Zysman

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Assistant Program Director: Kimberly Nolan
Research Assistant: John Fenske
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

25th Anniversary Video

Hear past and present organizers reflect on over 25 years of the Seminar XXI Program and its impact on the national security policy community.

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