Class of 2016 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session Francis Fukuyama
- Ethnicity, Religion and Civil Wars Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Daniel Byman, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, William McCants, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky
Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
Realism, Liberalism, and US-China Relations John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik
- National Economies in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Benjamin Cohen, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Herb Lin, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
Latin America Chappell Lawson, Ben Ross Schneider
Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
- US National Security Policy Daniel Byman, Taylor Fravel, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Layne, Keir Lieber, Stewart Patrick, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Jim Walsh, Frederic Wehrey

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Program Director: Prof. Robert Art
Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: Paul Spalletta
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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