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title: "Mackinder Forum Virtual Seminar #5: \"The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian & Peloponnesian Wars\""
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# [Mackinder Forum Virtual Seminar #5: "The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian & Peloponnesian Wars"](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/mackinder-forum-seminar-5-the-enduring-geopolitical-lessons-of-the-persian-peloponnesian-wars)

 Written by [admin](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/author/admin) | Jun 8, 2020 4:00:00 AM

June 7, 2020

Professor Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College) led our fifth Mackinder Forum Seminar; he discussed "The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars." A discussion followed.

The Coordinator of the Mackinder Forum-US circulated two readings by Professor Rahe: (1) "The Primacy of Domestic Politics," a expanded version of a paper, "The Dangerous Blinders of Realism," published by *The American Interest*, November 13, 2020; and (2) "Sparta Ascendant, Athens Rising: Alliance, Ambivalence, Rivalry, and War in a Tripolar World," unpublished ms.

Professor Rahe won the 2019 STRATFOR BOOK AWARD FOR GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS (administered by the Mackinder Forum) on the occasion of the publication of his *Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.*, Yale University Press.

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