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

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