Meeting No. 12: Mackinder Forum Workshop (�Geopolitics and the Future of the Nation State�) sponsored by Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE, Director General Development, Concepts and Doctrine at The Old Mi

�Geopolitical Theory and State-Breakdown Theory: Lessons from the Fall of the Soviet Bloc�

Dr. Randall Collins, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

�Conflict between Maritime and Territorial Organizations�

Doctor Paul Coones, Lecturer in Geography and Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, UK

�Middle-Eastern Shatterbelts and Political Instability�

Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, Director, Regional Strategic Programs, Nixon Center, Washington, DC

�Commercial Networks and Political Instability�

Professor Gerald Schneider, Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany

�Urbanization, International Narcotics, Terror Networks, and the Future of the Nation-State

Dr. Phil Williams, Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh