Class of 2010 Session Overview


β€œMIT Seminar XXI broadened my perspective, and more importantly it sharpened my focus. This experience has helped me cut through the distracting daily noise to expose the core concerns that matter. I recommend this first rate program to anyone seeking senior leadership roles that manage cross-cutting security and foreign affairs issues.”
Meghan Gregonis Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session Mr. Richard Clarke
- Ethnic and Religious Conflict Dr. Gerard Prunier, Prof. Scott Appleby, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. James Dobbins, Prof. Chaim Kaufmann, Prof. Steven Burg, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney, Prof. Robert Art, Prof. Mary Habeck
Iran & Turkey: Democracy & Islam Prof. Henri Barkey, Prof. Karim Sadjadpour
Japan & Europe β€” US Allies Forever? Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. Jolyon Howorth
Realism, Liberalism, and World Politics Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
- National Economies in a Globalizing World Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Jomo K.S., Ms. Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Andrew Natsios, Prof. Adam Segal, Prof. Rawi Abdelal, Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, Prof. Ben Ross Schneider
Environment & Demography Prof. Stacy VanDeveer, Prof. Richard Jackson
Democratization Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Eva Bellin
- US National Security Policy Prof. Robert Ross, Prof. Keir Lieber, Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Marc Lynch, Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Prof. Bruce Hoffman, Prof. Daryl Press, Prof. George Perkovich, Prof. Fotini Christia

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Kristen Jamison
Research Assistants: William Norris, Caitlin Talmadge
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

25th Anniversary Video

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