Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Security Studies Program
Seminar Series, Fall 1998
The Security Studies Program Seminars are
scheduled for Wednesdays, 12:00 to 1:30 PM (unless otherwise noted) at
the MIT Center for International Studies, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square,
Building E38, room 615. Bring a bag lunch; refreshments will be provided.
| September 16 |
Dr. William Keller, Executive
Director, MIT Center for International Studies
"The Case for Unconventional Nonproliferation" |
| September 23 |
Dr. Mitchell Wallerstein, Vice
President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
"The Defense Counter Proliferation
Initiative at Five Years: A Critical Review" |
| Thursday October 1* |
Prof. David Segal, Center for
Research on Military Organizations, Univ. of Maryland
"The Propensity to Enlist in the U.S.
Military" |
| October 7 |
CDR Richard Cocrane, US Navy,
Joint Staff
"The Gulf War and other Syndromes" |
| October 14 |
Col. Robert Doughty, Professor
and Head of the History Department, U.S. Military Academy
"The Myth of Blitzkrieg" |
| October 21 |
Tom Christensen, Associate
Professor of Political Science, MIT Security Studies Program
"China, Japan, and the Security Dilemma in East Asia" |
| October 28 |
Dr. Natalie Crawford, Director,
Project RAND
"The Air Force of the Future" |
| November 4 |
Dr. Lewis Sorley, freelance
history writer
"General Harold K. Johnson and the
Crisis in Civil-Military Relations During the Vietnam War" |
| November 11 |
Veteran’s Day - The Institute
is closed |
| November 18 |
Dr. Frank Gavin, Post Doctoral
Fellow, Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, Harvard
"The Origin of the Flexible Response Doctrine" |
| December 2 |
Dr. Jeffrey Barlow, Senior
Staff, Naval Historical Center
"The Joint Chiefs in the 1960s" |
| December 9 |
Dr. Larry Owens, Professor
of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"The Mathematics of Death and Destruction" |
*Note: Thursday, not Wednesday
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