This month on Geopolitics with Granieri
(In Philadelphia and on the Web)

Sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth Management
 

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Geopolitics with Granieri will take place at the FPRI Library.

Baseball, Football, and the American Way of War

A conversation with 

Michael P. Noonan
Director of Research, 
Director, Program on National Security, 
Foreign Policy Research Institute 
 
Tuesday, October 18
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 
FPRI Library, 1528 Walnut Street, Ste. 610, Philadelphia, PA 19102

• Live attendance at the meeting is open to FPRI Members at the Friends Level ($100) and guests of BNY Mellon Wealth Management
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The Duke of Wellington is alleged to have quipped: “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” Although it is not certain that Wellington exactly said those words, the idea behind them—that a nation’s martial culture is related to its sporting culture—has endured because it appears to have the ring of truth. Sports have long been an explicit and implicit training ground for leaders, and the types of games favored by a society offer a window onto that society’s’ values. For the United States, the question is especially interesting, as the dominant national pastimes of Football and Baseball, though inspired by imported practices, have evolved into particular styles that have since been re-exported to the world.
 
What do American sports tell us about American society and American conceptions of leadership? As other sports compete for the attention and energy of both the young and the viewing public, will we see a change in those conceptions in the future? Join FPRI’s Michael Noonan for a discussion about sports and international relations on the next Geopolitics with Granieri.

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