Class of 2018 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session Kathleen Hicks
- Religion, Identity Politics, and Civil War Scott Appleby, Robert Art, Alexander Downes, Caroline Hartzell, John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky, Andrew Tabler, Monica Toft
Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Cybersecurity and Biosecurity R. David Edelman, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
- National Economies and Transnational Factors in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Edward You
Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
- US National Security Policy Jasen Castillo, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Layne, Keir Lieber, Daryl Press, Robert Ross, Caitlin Talmadge, Jim Walsh

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Program Director & Staff

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

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