adminComments Off on Mackinder Forum Seminar #71: Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff, ““The War in Ukraine and Russia’s Imperial Legacy.”
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 »
adminComments Off on Mackinder Forum Seminar #58: Robert A. Destro, “Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Geopolitics of Food Insecurity.”
On Sunday, May 29, 2022, 1:30-3:00 p.m., Professor Robert A. Destro, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Department of State, addressed the Mackinder Forum Seminar on “Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Geopolitics of Food Insecurity.” Abstract: The ongoing war over the rich resources of Ukraine underscores a brutal,… Read more »
adminComments Off on Mackinder Forum Seminar #56: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “Predicting Threats to Stability and National Security”
On Saturday, May 7, 2022, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Eastern US Time, Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita addressed the Mackinder Forum Seminar on “Predicting Threats to Stability and National Security.” Abstract: Accurate anticipation of destabilizing political events is no longer in the realm of guesswork or the product of… Read more »
adminComments Off on Mackinder Forum Seminar #52: Colonel Jeff McCausland, PHD (US Army, ret.), “What does Putin want? Why is he doing it now?”
Mackinder Forum Seminar #52 was held on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, US. Our speaker, Jeff McCausland, PHD, Colonel, US Army (ret.), addressed the questions “What does Putin want? Why is he doing it now?” Biography: Dr. Jeff McCausland is a Visiting Professor at Dickinson College… Read more »
adminComments Off on The Ukrainian Crisis, Part III: The Deal
James D. Hardy, Jr., PhD and Leonard J. Hochberg, PhD In eastern Ukraine disorder bubbles on, violence expands, the subterranean power of militias and the Russian special forces grows, and the authority of the Ukrainian government evaporates. This has been going on since March 2014, and will continue into May and… Read more »
adminComments Off on The Ukrainian Crisis, Part II: Borderland
James D. Hardy, Jr, PhD and Leonard J. Hochberg, PhD Ukraine is a new manifestation of an old eastern European political phenomenon, the multi-national state. The old eastern European empires, Austria-Hungary, Tzarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Imperial Germany, had formed before nationalism became the dominant means of self-identification in the… Read more »
adminComments Off on The Ukrainian Crisis, Part I: Weighed in the Balance
James D. Hardy, Jr., PhD and Leonard J. Hochberg, PhD When the Russians moved into the Crimea, pundits and politicians, including Hillary Clinton, commented that the reasons given by Vladimir Putin for the invasion were the same as those used by Adolph Hitler at Munich in 1938. Ethnic Russians (Germans) were… Read more »
