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Mackinder Forum Seminar #51: Professor Athanasios Platias, “Leadership, Grand Strategy, and the Limitations of Neorealist International Relations Theory: The Case of Themistocles

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On March 5, 2022, Professor Athanasios Platias, University of the Piraeus, delivered a talk on “Leadership, Grand Strategy, and the Limitations of Neorealist International Relations theory: The Case of Themistocles.” Abstract: The assigned reading addresses the historical case of Themistocles to contradict the current “structural orthodoxy” that regards leaders as… Read more »

Mackinder Forum Seminar #5: “The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian & Peloponnesian Wars”

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June 7, 2020 Professor Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College) led our fifth Mackinder Forum Seminar; he discussed “The Enduring Geopolitical Lessons of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.” A discussion followed. The Coordinator of the Mackinder Forum-US circulated two readings by Professor Rahe: (1) “The Primacy of Domestic Politics,” a expanded version… Read more »