Class of 1992 Session Overview

“Seminar XXI came along when the old Cold War rule sets were being overturned by the force of momentous events. By encouraging “outside the box” thinking, Seminar XXI armed its Fellows with an intellectual framework for evaluating the security challenges of a rapidly changing world.”
LTC Andy Krepinevich, USA (Ret.) Executive Director, Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Prof. John Deutch
- Soviet Union Dr. Eugeny Ambartsumov, Prof. Robert D. Blackwill, Prof. Stephen L. Burg, Pierre Hassner, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Stephen Meyer
Germany Dr. Josef Joffe, Prof. Andrei Markovits
China Prof. Lucian Pye, Prof. Susan Shirk
Iran and Islam Prof. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Gary Sick
- Japan and the Pacific Prof. Ronald Dore, Prof. Linda Lim, Prof. Mike Mochizuki, Prof. Gregory W. Noble, Prof. T.J. Pempel, Prof. Akihiko Tanaka, Amb. Koji Watanabe
India Dr. Arun Shourie, Prof. Myron Weiner
Democratization Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Myron Weiner
- Trade, Technology, and Security Prof. Francis Bator, Dr. Robert J. Hermann, Dr. Janne E. Nolan, Yukio Okamoto, Dr. Sylvia Ostry, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Richard Samuels, Prof. John Zysman

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Suzanne Berger
Program Coordinator: Megan van Frank
Assistant Director: Barry Cohen
Research Assistants: Wade Jacoby, Jason Wittenberg
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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