Class of 2020 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session Peter W. Singer
- Religion, Identity Politics, & Civil Wars Scott Appleby, Alexander Downes, Kelly M. Greenhill, Caroline Hartzell, Ron Hassner, Joshua Landis, John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik, Kenneth Pollack, Gerard Prunier
Iran, Turkey & Israel Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Japan, Europe & South Korea – Allies Forever? Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels, Andrew Yeo
Cybersecurity & Biosecurity Joel Brenner, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
- National Economies & Transnational Factors in a Globalized World Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Luis Videgaray, Edward You
Latin America Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
- Pandemic & Covid-19 Nancy Connell, Alexander de Waal, Sumit Ganguly, Gigi Gronvall, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Murray Lumpkin, Suzanne Maloney, Daryl Press, Adam Segal

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Program Executive Director: Tisha Gomes Voss
Program Assistant: Jennifer Kempe
Research Assistant: Rachel Tecott
Senior Advisors: Jake Stewart, Mitzi Wertheim

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