Class of 1993 Session Overview

“A superb program — I learned a great deal and still run into people in government who were my Seminar classmates.”
Lt Gen Jim Conway, USMCCommanding General, I MEF, Iraq

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Prof. Joseph Nye, Jr.
- Former Soviet Union Prof. Paul Goble, Pierre Hassner, Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Gail Lapidus, Prof. Stephen Meyer, Prof. Lilia Shevtsova, Prof. Roman Szporluk, Prof. Victor Zaslavsky
China Dr. Harry Harding, Prof. Lucian Pye
- Japan and the Pacific Prof. Mike Mochizuki, Prof. Masashi Nishihara, Prof. Gregory W. Noble, Prof. T.J. Pempel, Prof. Susan J. Pharr, Prof. Robert Hunter Wade, Amb. Koji Watanabe
Europe Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Dr. Josef Joffe
- Democratization Prof. Elemér Hankiss, Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. José Maria Maravall, Dr. Michael Mejstrik, Dr. Jacques Rupnik
North Africa and Islam Prof. Lisa Anderson, Prof. Bernard Lewis
- Trade, Technology, and Security Prof. Francis Bator, Jonathan E. Cornell, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Clyde Prestowitz, Prof. Richard Samuels, Mitoji Yabunaka, Prof. John Zysman

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Program Coordinator: Megan van Frank
Assistant Director: Barry Cohen
Research Assistants: Wade Jacoby, Jonah Levy, Jason Wittenberg
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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