June 7, 2020 Professor Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College) will led our fifth Mackinder Forum Seminar; he discussed “The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.” A discussion followed. The organizer of this Seminar circulated two readings by Professor Rahe: (1) “The Primacy of Domestic Politics,” a expanded version… Read more »
May 24, 2020 The participants in the fourth Mackinder Forum Seminar decided to extend the conversation concerning the nature and utility of grand strategy by asking the participants to address explicitly the arguments in the following two articles: Richard Haass, “A Cold War With China Would Be a Mistake,” The… Read more »
May 17, 2020Our third seminar, devoted to “The Nature & Utility of Grand Strategy,” addressed several questions: (1) What is grand strategy? (2) Is grand strategy now possible in the US? (3) In the presence of the Chinese challenge, is a US grand strategy necessary? (4) If necessary, but not… Read more »
May 3, 2020 Admiral Chris Parry (UK, ret.) commented on the nature of 21st century war. He introduced the following issues, followed by a discussion: 1) Enduring Strategic Antagonism – what are the implications?2) Dissimilar conceptions of warfare.3) New dimensions and domains of warfare.4) The changed character of warfare: 4a)… Read more »
April 19, 2020 Common reading: Andrew Rhodes’ “Thinking in Space: The Role of Geography in National Security Decision-Making,” Texas National Security Review, 2 (4), November 2019: https://tnsr.org/2019/11/thinking-in-space-the-role-of-geography-in-national-security-decision-making/.
2019: Paul A. Rahe, Sparta’s First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C., Yale University Press, 2019 2018: Peter J. Hugill, Transition in Power: Technological “Warfare” and the Shift from British to American Hegemony since 1919, Lexington Books, 2018 2017: Geoffrey Sloan, Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History,… Read more »
William Ruger, Vice President of Research, Charles Koch Foundation, “US Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump and Beyond,” Luncheon Keynote Address, 10/24/19 Nong Hong, Institute for China-American Studies, “Emerging Interests of Asian States in the Arctic: Examining the Implications of China’s Arctic Policy,” Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/24/19… Read more »
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… Read more »
Rodger Baker, VP for Strategic Analysis, Strategic Forecasting, Inc., “The Value of Geopolitics to Business,” 10/26/17 Gordon Chang, Columnist, Daily Beast, “U.S., China, and North Korea: War or Peace in Asia,” Sponsored by Strategic Forecasting, Inc., 10/26/17 Bert Chapman, Purdue University, “The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements,” 10/27/19 Remi Piet,… Read more »
John Baker, Georgetown Law School, “Conflicting Paradigms for Combating Terrorism,” 10/20/16 Rodger Baker, VP for Strategic Analysis, Strategic Forecasting, Inc., “Stratfor’s Approach to Geopolitical Forecasting: Twenty Years of Predicting International Change,” 10/20/16 Admiral Chris Parry (UK, ret.), “Migration, Demographic Change and Geopolitics: The Cases of the European Union, the United… Read more »
