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title: "Meeting #20: Mackinder Forum Annual Conference, held under the auspices of the American Society for Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October 24-27, 2018"
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# [Meeting #20: Mackinder Forum Annual Conference, held under the auspices of the American Society for Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October 24-27, 2018](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/meeting-20-mackinder-forum-annual-meeting-held-under-the-auspices-of-the-american-society-for-competitiveness-washington-dc-october-24-27-2018)

 Written by [admin](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/author/admin) | Oct 31, 2018 4:00:00 AM

Leonard Hochberg, Coordinator, Mackinder Forum-US & Senior Fellow, FPRI, "Thinking Geopolitically with Mackinder," 10/25/18

Phil Kelly, "Rescuing Classical Geopolitics: Separating Geopolitics from Realism," 10/25/18

John Baker, ESQ & Emeritus Professor, LSU Law Center, "The Legal Limits of Free Trade," 10/25/18

Tong Zhao, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, China, "China's Nuclear Arms Doctrine: Capacity and Intent," Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/25/18

Maia Otarashvili, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), "Geopolitics of the Greater Black Sea Basin: Where Great Power Interests Converge and Small Countries Master How to Navigate the Rough Seas," 10/26/18

Lukas Milevski, Leiden University, "Window in the Heart(land): The Geopolitics of the Easter Baltic Littoral," 10/26/18

William Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Indiana University, "History, Technology, and Commerce," Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/26/18

Rodger Baker, Senior Vice President, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Forecasting, Inc., "Democracy, Geography, and Strategy: Is a Grand Strategy of the United States Possible?" 10/27/18

Brian Blouet, William & Mary University, "Mackinder and World War I," 10/27/18

Peter Hugill, Texas A & M University, "Transition Theory, State Type, and Hegemony: Their Origins in the Works of Halford Mackinder," 10/27/18

William Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Indiana University, "Norms and Rules in Flux?" Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/27/18

Bert Chapman, Perdue University, "The Arctic's Emerging Geopolitics: Recommendations for the United States and its NATO Allies," 10/27/18

Francis Sempa, Wilkes University, "Kennan and the Geopolitics of Containment," 10/27/18

Phil Kelly, Emporia State University, "American Sea Power: The Unescapable but Imperative Global Stabilizer," 10/27/18

Peter J. Hugill, Texas A & M University, "The Techno-geopolitics of the British/American Transition with Lessons for the American/Chinese Struggle," Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/27/18 -- The Mackinder Forum is pleased to announce that Professor Hugill's* Transition in Power: Technological 'Warfare' and the Shift from British to American Hegemony since 1919* (Lexington Books, 2018) is the recipient of the 2018 STRATFOR Book Award for Geopolitical Analysis.

Geoff Sloan, University of Reading, UK & Coordinator, Mackinder Forum-UK, "The Geopolitical Implications for the US of China's 'One Road, One Belt Initiative,' " 10/27/18

Francis Sempa, Wilkes University, "China as a 'Going Concern': The South China Sea and Beyond," 10/27/18

Note: The Mackinder Forum wishes to thank Strategic Forecasting, Inc. for its sponsorship of lectures at our annual meeting and is support for the annual book award.

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