Class of 2019 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Session Thomas Christensen
- Religion, Identity Politics & Civil War Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky, Monica Toft
Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
Cybersecurity & Biosecurity Joel Brenner, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
- National Economies & Transnational Factors in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
- US National Security Policy Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Barry Posen, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Jim Walsh

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

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