Class of 1989 Session Overview

“As a spear carrier on the Joint Staff, I found the sessions of Seminar XXI a terrific way to get an alternative view of what we were doing in the Pentagon.”
GEN Montgomery Meigs, USA (Ret.) Former CINC US Army, Europe

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Prof. Samuel Huntington
- Soviet Union Dr. Ed A. Hewett, Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Prof. Gail Lapidus, Prof. Robert Legvold, Prof. Stephen Meyer, Prof. Victor Zaslavsky
Western Europe Pierre Hassner, Dr. Josef Joffe
Japan Prof. Richard Samuels, Amb. Koji Watanabe
Iran and Islam Prof. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Gary Sick
South Africa Michael Clough, Moeletsi Mbeki
China Prof. Lucian Pye, Dr. Richard Solomon
India Prof. Ashis Nandy, Prof. Myron Weiner
Central America Elliot Abrams, Prof. Terry Karl
- Trade, Technology, and Security Dr. Mary Good, Hiroo Kinoshita, Robert McCormack, Clyde Prestowitz, Prof. Lothar Rühl, Prof. Richard Samuels, Amb. Koji Watanabe, Prof. John Zysman

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Assistant Director: Kimberly Nolan
Program Coordinator: Megan van Frank
Research Assistant: Jonah Levy
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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