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MIT Seminar XXI is a

History
The school began in 1986 with the initial seminar meeting on September 12–14. Its three founders were Suzanne Berger, Jake W. Stewart, and Mitzi Wertheim who wanted to improve on the national security community's perspective in the 1970s and 1980s. Its initial design was to "provide a unique educational perspective for senior military and civilian officials and to afford an opportunity for frank and challenging exchanges of ideas between policymakers, university scholars, and Seminar XXI Fellows".

Seminar XXI Program Directors included Suzanne Berger (1986–1993); Barry Posen, Myron Weiner, and Ken Oye (1993–1998); Ken Oye (1998–2000), and Robert Art (2000–2021). As of July 2021, Dr. Kelly Greenhill became the seminar director.

As of 2020, 2,530 fellows had graduated from the program.

Structure
Seminar XXI falls under MIT's Center for International Studies. It educates national security professionals across multiple government and non-governmental organizations "with significant potential to move into key decision-making roles in the next 5–10 years".

Admissions
Initially for military students, fellows since the outset have come from various organizations. These include the "Departments of State, Commerce, Justice, Energy, and Homeland Security, as well as from the Congressional Budget Office, Governmental Accountability Office, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, the intelligence community, the US Coast Guard, and industry" as well as non-governmental organizations.

Curriculum
As of 2023, the curriculum comprises nine sessions in the National Capital Region between September and May.

Notable faculty
The seminar has featured a number of notable faculty members. These include the Honorable Condoleezza Rice, Honorable Caspar Weinberger, Honorable Kathleen Hicks, Michèle Flournoy, Bernard Lewis, Francis Fukuyama, Peter Singer, Sumit Ganguly, Samuel Huntington, James Stavridis, Sarah Chayes, John Mearsheimer, Joseph Nye, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Gerard Prunier, and James Dobbins.

Faculty as of 2023 include academics from universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Loughborough University of London, George Washington, Dartmouth, Texas A&M, and Syracuse University. Think tanks, non-governmental, and private organizations also have faculty representatives, such as Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Boston Dynamics, and Over Zero.

Notable former students
Graduates have served in various positions including Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Director of the National Security Agency, Deputy Secretary of Defense, USAID Administrator; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force; Chief of Naval Operations; Commandant of the Marine Corps; Commanding General, US Army Europe; and Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard. Admiral Stuart Munsch, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa also lists Seminar XXI in his biography.

Alumni from U.S. uniformed services include the Honorable Andrew S. Natsios, Honorable Robert Work; Honorable Rudy de Leon, Admiral James Stavridis General Philip Breedlove General Mark Milley, General George Casey; Admiral Charles Ray, Admiral John Richardson, General Mark Welch, Admiral Harry Harris, General Lee Butler; General James Cartwright. General James Conway, General Montgomery Meigs, General Norton Schwartz, Admiral Robert F. Willard, and Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan.