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title: "Meeting No. 7: Mackinder Forum Conference to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Mackinder’s Heartland Theory (“A Hundred Years of Geopolitics”), Oxford, U.K., March 22-23, 2004"
description: "Meeting No. 7: Mackinder Forum Conference to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Mackinder’s Heartland Theory (“A Hundred Years of Geopolitics”), Oxford, U.K., March 22-23, 2004"
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# [Meeting No. 7: Mackinder Forum Conference to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Mackinder’s Heartland Theory (“A Hundred Years of Geopolitics”), Oxford, U.K., March 22-23, 2004](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/meeting-no-7-mackinder-forum-conference-oxford-uk-march-22-23-2004)

 Written by [admin](https://mackinderforum.org/blog/author/admin) | Mar 23, 2004 5:00:00 AM

**Opening Remarks**

Prof. Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, Oxford, UK

**"In Defence of the Heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and his Critics, One Hundred Years On" (Keynote address)**

Dr. Stephen Biddle, US Army War College

**“Mackinder – A Life”**

Prof. Brian Blouet, William & Mary College

**“Air Power and Geopolitics”**

Prof. Michael Clarke, Kings College, London

**“Air Power History and Geopolitics”**

Seb Cox, Esq., Head, Air Historical Branch

**“Mackinder Versus Mahan”**

Admiral Richard Hill (U.K., ret.)

**"Ancient Geopolitics and Modern Perspectives: Dilemmas of Justice and Geopolitics in the Athenian Maritime Empire as Portrayed in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War"**

Professor Leonard Hochberg & Professor James D. Hardy Jr., Louisiana State University

**"Geography and Diplomacy"**

Sir Ivor Roberts, HM Ambassador to Rome

**"Geography and War"**

General Sir Rupert Smith (U.K., ret.)

**“Mackinder’s Strategic Thought”**

Dr. Pascal Vernier, University of Salford

**Closing Remarks**

Prof. Colin Gray, University of Reading

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