Class of 2021 Session Overview

Session Date Participating Faculty
Introductory Session (Virtual Meeting) Richard Clarke
- Disintegration: Ethnic, Religious & Ideational Identities, & Conflict (Virtual Meeting) Scott Appleby, Aleksa Djilas, Page Fortna, Ron Hassner, Ram Manikkalingam, Zoe Marks, James Millward, Melissa Nobles, Kenneth Oye, Gerard Prunier, Emma Sky, Stephen Van Evera
Liberalism, Realism and Interstate Conflict with reference to US-China Relations (Virtual Meeting) John Mearsheimer, Andrew Moravcsik
Iran, Turkey & Israel (Virtual Meeting) Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Ömer Taşpınar
Democratization & Authoritarianism in the Arab World (Virtual Meeting) Eva Bellin, Gregory Gause
Pandemic Security and COVID-19 (Virtual Meeting) Nancy Connell, Gigi Gronvall, Murray Lumpkin
Climate Change (Virtual Meeting) John Deutch, David Keith, Maria Zuber
Cybersecurity & Biosecurity (Virtual Meeting) R. David Edelman, Kenneth Oye, Edward You
- National Economies in a Globalizing World (Virtual Meeting) Rawi Abdelal, Sarah Chayes, Alexander de Waal, Kimberly Elliott, Josef Joffe, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Andrew Natsios, Kenneth Oye, Adam Segal, Luis Videgaray
Japan, Europe & South Korea: US Allies Forever? (Virtual Meeting) Victor Cha, Jolyon Howorth, Richard Samuels
Latin America (Virtual Meeting) Matthew Carnes, Stephen Kaplan
Nuclear Politics (Virtual Meeting) Vipin Narang, Caitlin Talmadge, Jim Walsh
- US National Security Policy (Virtual Meeting) Taylor Fravel, Sumit Ganguly, Bruce Hoffman, Jonathan Kirshner, Andrey Kortunov, Keir Lieber, Barry Posen, Daryl Press

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Program Director & Staff

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

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