61st Program Year

September, 2009 to June, 2010

• The Obama Administration’s View of Counterterrorism
• Venezuela: Strategies of an Authoritarian Petrostate
• Nations and States: the Question of Ethnicity in International Relations
• Death of a Nation—Yugoslavia in the 1990s
• The Quest for Change in Afghanistan
• How the War on Drugs Gets in the Way of Counterinsurgency
• Why Thailand has been polarized: implications for the region and with the United States
• The U.S. Intelligence Structure — Prospects for Reform under the Obama Administration
• Paths to Peace in the Critical Next Twelve Months in Sudan
• Long-term Global Challenges and the U.S.-China Relationship

60th Program Year

September, 2008 to June, 2009

• Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
• The United States' Grand Strategy and the New Administration
• U.S. – Mexico Relations: A Difficult Marriage, but Divorce is Impossible
• What Makes North Korea Tick: Can the Hermit Kingdom Open Up?
• Underneath the Shadow of the Bear: Georgian-Russian Relations
• Latin America's Left Turn—Implications for U.S. Policy
• The Global Financial Crisis and the Geopolitics of Russia, China and the Developed World
• American Interests in the Middle East
• Germany: in Search of Order in a Chaotic World
• The Horn of Africa: Challenge and Opportunity for Foreign Policy

59th Program Year

September, 2007 to June, 2008

• The Middle East in the Wake of Iraq: Implications for US National Interest
• China and Its Position in the World Economy
• A Nuclear Middle East -- It's Time to Worry
• Addressing the Threats of Nuclear Proliferation: What Next?
• The Mind of Jihad
• India's Passage to Asia: Implications for the U.S.
• Public Diplomacy and the Muslim World
• America's Economic Engagement in the Asia Pacific Region, and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement
• Kosova, Serbia, and the Balkans: What's Next for Europe?
• Immigration and Security Policies: The Challenge for Europe

58th Program Year

September, 2006 to June, 2007

• How 'Star Wars' Ended the Cold War Early
• The EU in the Middle East: Problems and Prospects
• Israel and Palestine: Endless Conflict of Middle East Peace?
• Whither Afghanistan? The Search for Peace in the Heart of Asia
• The Shia Revival
• Political and Social Islam: An Insider's View
• Memories of Fidel -- U.S. Policies in a Post-Fidel Cuba
• The Situation in Oaxaca -- and Chiapas
• Somalia
• The Decline and Fall of the CIA

57th Program Year

September, 2005 to June, 2006

• The Taiwan Dilemma: Protecting Democracy, Preserving Peace
• Africa In the Global Community: Threat or Promise
• The Challenge of Stability in Southeast Asia: Religious Extremism and National Integrity
• Democracy, Power and Superpower: America, the United Nations and the International Community
• Turkey's Future in a Changing Europe and Middle East
• Inter-American Relations After Mar Del Plata
• 'Central' Asia on the Brink: U.S. Policy, Assistance & Challenges Ahead
• One Flu Out Some Cuckoo's Head: Why Pandemic Vian Flu Isn't A Problem, Unless You Are A Chicken
• The Long Struggle: The Arab World Versus the Christian West
• The Difference in How the U.S. and Europe Deal with the Rising Asian Powers

56th Program Year

September, 2004 to June, 2005

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Required Reading for Every American
• Peace in the Middle East After November 2nd
• Financing Terrorism
• Turkey and the EU Compatible or Combustible Partners?
• International Broadcasting And the War on Terrorism
• Pathway to Peace: the Bush Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process
• Contemporary Security Issues in the Western Hemisphere -- post 9/11
• Up for a Vote: The Central America Free Trade Agreement
• Afghanistan: Ongoing Conflict, Emerging Democracy?
• The Coming Crisis of Globalization and How to Survive?

55th Program Year

September, 2003 to June, 2004

• US Foreign Policy: The Bigger Picture
• Africa: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
• Relations Between the United States and the European Union
• Who's Afraid of North Korea?
• China, the United States and the New World Order
• French American Relations in a World Transformed
• Politics at the Heart: Afghanistan's Future and the Politics of South and Central Asia
• Economic Woes, Reformist Blues, and Green Card Dreams: The 'Iranian Street' and U.S. Policy
• Operation Iraqi Freedom
• China and the Two Koreas: A Delicate Balancing of Relations

54th Program Year

September, 2002 to June, 2003

• Think Again: Nation Building
• Perils of Success: The Transition to Democracy in Kazakhstan
• Iraqi Complicity in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
• Egyptian American Relations: A Shared Quest for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East
• Russia and the West: Partners or Competitors?
• Strategic Stability in South Asia: How India-Pakistan Relations Affect US Interests
• NATO Expansion: Challenges and Opportunities
• Indonesia: Pivot for Stability or Southeast Asia's Weakest Link?
• American Espionage in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
• China, the United States and the New World Disorder

53rd Program Year

September, 2001 to June, 2002

• The Future of Japan
• Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama Bin Laden
• Homeland Defense
• The Next Test: Terrorist States with Strategic Weapons
• Negotiating the National Security
• The India-Pakistan Standoff
• The Biological Weapons Convention
• What Comes Next in America's Three Wars?
• Transboundary Water Issues: The Price of Neglect
• Columbia, Venezuela and Argentina: The US and the Dilemmas of Democracy in Latin America

52nd Program Year

September, 2000 to June, 2001

• National Security Issues: As Seen from a Reformed Technologist's Point of View
• Coping with Civil Wars Abroad: Lessons from the American Civil War
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• The International Court and Changing International Law Standards
• American Ballistic Missile Defense: Panacea, Placebo, or Poison?
• Columbia's War: From the Front Lines to the US Policy Debate
• A New Israeli Government: Implications for Middle East Peace
• China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control
• US Strategic Interests in South Asia: Dealing with India and Pakistan
• Russia's Role in Asian Security