Professor Jacques Sapir addressed our Mackinder Forum Seminar series on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time. His talk: “Could Decision-Makers have been Misled by an Uninformed Geostrategic Perception of both Russia and China?” Abstract: The geostrategic perception of Russia and China has long been biased… Read more »
On Sunday, May 28, 2023, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time), Mr. David Goldman addressed the Mackinder Forum on “The Inevitable, But Not Imminent, Decline of The Dollar.” Abstract: No alternative to the US dollar as the main world reserve currency exists and none will for the foreseeable future. China would… Read more »
On Sunday, April 30, at 1:30-3:00 p.m. (Eastern U.S. Time), the Mackinder Forum hosted a panel discussion on significance of the Xi-Putin meeting. The title of our seminar, “A Marriage of Convenience, Not of Affection,” is taken from Admiral John Kirby’s remark provided below. “These are two nations who chafe and bristle… Read more »
The Honorable John Hillen was the third presenter in the Mackinder Forum’s Colin Gray Memorial Lecture Series. The title of his talk was “Laying the Groundwork for a U.S. Grand Strategy for the China Challenge.” He addressed the Mackinder Forum on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 10:30-noon Eastern U.S. Time. Abstract:… Read more »
On Sunday, March 26, 2023, at 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern U.S. Time, Mr. Francis P. Sempa presented an Introduction to a white paper, Strategic Sequencing: How Great Powers Avoid Multi-Front War, written by A. Wess Mitchell of the Marathon Initiative. Mr. Sempa’s presentation kicked off our discussion of how great powers have deployed… Read more »
On Sunday, March 5, 2023, 1:30-3:00 P.M. Eastern U.S. Time, Dr. Antonia Colibasanu presented a talk to the Mackinder Forum on “The Black Sea Region and the Ukraine War in Geopolitical Perspective.” Abstract: The war in Ukraine has become a war of attrition. Usually, a war of attrition is not… Read more »
On Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time, Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff addressed the Mackinder Forum on “The War in Ukraine and Russia’s Imperial Legacy.” Dr. Mankoff has recently published a volume on the significance of imperial legacies for the foreign policies of Iran, Turkey, China, and Russia. See Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies… Read more »
On Feb. 5, 2023, 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time, Mr. Rodger Baker addressed the Mackinder Forum on “The Return of Multipolarity.” Abstract: Rising U.S.-China competition is reviving assertions that the world is heading back into another Cold War. But the Cold War was an anomalous period of modern world history,… Read more »
Captain Samuel Canter spoke with the Mackinder Forum Seminar on Sunday, January 22, 2023, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Time) on the topic “The Department of Defense and the Prioritization of Great Power Threats.” Abstract: Why did the Department of Defense begin to prioritize Great Power Competition (GPC) during the 2014 –… Read more »
On Friday, January 13, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Eastern U.S. Time, Colonel Dr. Jeff McCausland (ret., US) presented the second lecture in the Mackinder Forum’s recently established “Colin S. Gray Memorial Lecture Series in Geostrategy.” The title of his talk: “Geostrategy and Leadership Lessons from the War in Ukraine.” ABSTRACT:… Read more »
