Class of 2005 Session Overview

“Seminar XXI exposes participants to the context–the history and theory–of current events in the international security arena. It was an exceptional broadening experience, opening my aperture to the diverse thinking and worldviews of the speakers and, as important, the mental models of the other participants.”
Stephen B. Wehrenberg Director, Future Force and Director, Executive Development, US Coast Guard

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session Prof. Paul Kennedy
- Ethnic and Religious Conflict Prof. Scott Appleby, Prof. Daniel Byman, Prof. Sumit Ganguly, Prof. Roger Petersen, Dr. Gerard Prunier, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Prof. Stephen Van Evera
Democratization Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Mike McFaul
State Building & Iraq Dr. James Dobbins, Dr. Kenneth Pollack
Realism, Liberalism, and the Future of World Politics Prof. John Mearsheimer, Prof. Andrew Moravcsik
- US National Security Policy Prof. Robert Art, Dr. Thomas Barnett, Prof. Thomas Christensen, Dr. Shai Feldman, Amb. Martin Indyk, Prof. David Kang, Dr. Andrei Kortunov, Prof. Barry Posen, Lord John Roper, Prof. Richard Samuels, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Prof. Stephen Walt
South Asia Prof. Stephen Cohen, Prof. Marvin Weinbaum
Terrorism and Homeland Security Prof. Bruce Hoffman, Prof. Louise Richardson
- National Economies in a Globalizing World Dr. Anders Aslund, Kimberly Elliott, Prof. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Prof. Chappell Lawson, Prof. Kenneth Oye, Dr. Steven Radelet, Prof. Robert Rotberg, Prof. Edward Steinfeld

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Program Director & Staff

Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Phaedra McLaurin
Research Assistants: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Joshua Rovner
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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