Class of 2017 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
2016 Introductory Session & Alumni Reunion James Dobbins
- Religion, Identity Politics, and Civil Wars Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, William McCants, Kenneth Pollack, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky
Iran, Turkey, and Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Japan, Europe, and South Korea - Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
Realism, Liberalism, and U.S.-China Relations John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik
- National Economies and Transnational Forces in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Joel Brenner, Sarah Chayes, Benjamin Cohen, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, James Kunder, Herb Lin, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
- US National Security Policy Deborah Avant, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Layne, Keir Lieber, Vipin Narang, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Caitlin Talmadge, Jim Walsh

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Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: Timothy McDonnell
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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