Past Conferences and Workshops

Meeting No. 16: Mackinder Forum Annual Conference, held under the auspices of the American Society for Competitiveness at Tysons Corner, VA, October 22-24, 2015

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Geostrategic Challenges and the Armed Forces of the United States. Evolving Roles and Missions: I, Army, Marines, Navy; II, Air Force, Cyber, Space Command (Two round-table discussions)

�The Geostrategy of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)�

Dr. Leonard J. Hochberg, Coordinator, Mackinder Forum & Dr. Michael Hochberg, formerly University of Delaware

�By Sea and by Land: The Geopolitics of American Exceptionalism According to Alexis de Tocqueville�

Dr. Leonard J. Hochberg, Coordinator, Mackinder Forum

�Applying the Approaches of Three Geopolitical Writers to Contemporary Crises in the South China Sea and Toward the Alleged Islamic State Caliphate�

Prof. Phil Kelly, Emporia State University

�Eurasia and Rimalnd � Closer Than You Think (Keynote address)

Admiral Chris Parry (U.K., ret.)

�The Cost of Primacy and the Value of Prudence in American Foreign Policy� (Keynote address)

William Ruger, Charles Koch Foundation

�Mahan and the Problem of Asia�

Francis P. Sempa, Wilkes University