Class of 2000 Session Overview

“Seminar XXI offers the civilian intelligence officer an unparalleled opportunity to network with military counterparts. Five years later, I still meet my classmates at opportune professional moments.”
Carmen Medina Associate Dep Dir for Intelligence, CIA

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introduction Amb. Jack Matlock
- Ethnic Conflict Dr. Aleksa Djilas, Dr. Paul Goble, Prof. Charles Keely, Prof. Robert Price, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Ashutosh Varshney
Islamism and Turkey Prof. Feroz Ahmad, Prof. John Voll
Democratization Prof. Terry Karl, Prof. Peter Stavrakis
The Future of Eurasian Security Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
- US National Security Policy Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Dr. Kenneth Pollack, Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Prof. Jack Snyder, Prof. Stephen Van Evera, Prof. Stephen Walt
Nuclear Proliferation Prof. Scott Sagan, Prof. Kenneth Waltz
Economic Security Prof. Robert Hunter Wade, Prof. Sylvia Maxfield
- Global and Regional Integration Prof. David Asher, Prof. Suzanne Berger, Prof. Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Prof. Carmen Reinhart, Prof. Edward Steinfeld

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Kenneth Oye
Program Coordinator: Amy Tarr
Program Assistant: Sonya Brathwaite
Research Assistants: Rafael Bonoan, Sarah Lisher
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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