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

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Amb. Thomas Pickering
- Ethnic Conflict Dr. Daniel Byman, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Chaim Kaufmann, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Stephen Van Evera
Religion and Politics Prof. Ian Lustick, Dr. Olivier Roy
The Persian Gulf Dr. Ken Pollack, Prof. William Quandt
Realism, Liberalism, and Europe Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
- 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
South Asia Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Juan Cole
Terrorism and Homeland Security Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Bruce Hoffman
- 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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Program Director & Staff

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

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