Class of 1996 Session Overview

“I found the Seminar XXI experience to be intellectually stimulating, thought provoking, and extremely relevant. Many of the topics discussed in 1995–1996 are America’s challenges today. Seminar XXI helps me to meet those challenges today.”
Honorable Claude M. Bolton, Jr. Assist Sec Army (AT&L)

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Leslie H. Gelb
- Ethnic Conflict Dr. Aleksa Djilas, Dr. Paul Goble, Prof. Donald Horowitz, Prof. Kathleen Newland, Prof. Robert Price, Dr. Shashi Tharoor
North Africa, the Middle East, and Islam Prof. Lisa Anderson, Dr. Olivier Roy
Democratization Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Alexander S. Tsipko
The Future of European Security Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
- US National Security Policy Prof. Richard K. Betts, Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Prof. Jack Snyder, Prof. Stephen Van Evera, Prof. Stephen Walt
Nuclear Proliferation Prof. Scott Sagan, Prof. Kenneth Waltz
Economic Growth and Productivity Prof. F. Gerald Adams, Prof. William H. Branson, James Fallows
- Regional Integration Prof. Suzanne Berger, Prof. Denise Dresser, Prof. Kimberly Elliott, Dr. Harry Harding, Prof. Miles Kahler, Shenzhi Li, Prof. Robert Pastor, Amb. Koji Watanabe

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Barry Posen, Prof. Myron Weiner
Program Coordinator: Kelly M. Greenhill
Program Assistant: Lisa A. Claussen
Research Assistants: Brian Hanson, Jim Walsh
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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