Join the Buckley Institute on Thursday, September 19, 2024, at 4:30pm, in WLH 119 (100 Wall St, New Haven, CT) for the 2024 Donald Kagan Memorial Lecture.
This year's lecture will be given by Hillsdale College Professor of History Paul Rahe, who received his PhD at Yale under Professor Donald Kagan. Professor Rahe will speak on “An Improvident Stewardship: American Statesmanship Since the End of the Cold War.” The lecture will discuss how American foreign policy since the Cold War echoes mistakes made in the wake of World War I by building up our prospective enemies and greatly weakening ourselves.
Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History. He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992), Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War (2009), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift (2009), and of five books on ancient Lacedaemon and its grand strategy – including, most recently, Sparta’s First Attic War (2019), Sparta’s Second Attic War (2020), and Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War (2023). In 2019, the Mackinder Forum conferred on Sparta’s First Attic War the Strategic Forecasting Book Award for Excellence in Geopolitical Analysis. On 11 April 2022, In recognition of his work on grand strategy, the University of Piraeus in Greece conferred on Professor Rahe its Themistocles Statesmanship Award.
