LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP: THUCYDIDES, POWER POLITICS, AND THE QUESTION OF JUSTICE - Softcover

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9781618460875: LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP: THUCYDIDES, POWER POLITICS, AND THE QUESTION OF JUSTICE

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ISBN 10: 1618460870 ISBN 13: 9781618460875

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FROM KATY HARRIGER'S INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM: The seeds for this symposium were planted almost four decades ago, when Karl Haigler, a Wake Forest student in what was then called the Department of Politics, took a senior seminar with Dick Sears, a professor of international relations in the department. The seminar read Thucydides and discussed the relevance of his ideas to an understanding of the great questions at the heart of international relations. This seminar appears to have been the genesis for Professor Sears’ career long interest in Thucydides and what the ancient Greek had to contribute to the teaching of international relations. Sears published several articles on this topic, and at the time of his death in 2017 he had much of a draft of a book on the subject completed.Karl Haigler attended Dick’s memorial service in October of 2017, introduced himself to Dick’s daughters, and told them about his experience in the seminar on Thucydides. They told him about finding all of Dick’s papers on Thucydides and wondering what to do with them. Karl offered to take them and read through them. On a parallel track, about a decade ago, Karl and his wife Rae Nelson, had begun a relationship with the department, which in my mind has been an exemplar of the kind of alumni support that every department should envy. Using their extensive experience in public service and public policy, they have mentored our students, taught in our classes, and encouraged us to do public programming. In addition to their time and talent, they have also been generous financial contributors. In fact, their time, talent, and treasure all helped make this symposium possible. When Karl told me in the fall of 2018 that he was working with Dick’s papers, and wondering what might be done to give his work more exposure, we hit upon the idea of the symposium, with the possible publication of the proceedings. This document is the culmination of that effort.In organizing the symposium, we thought it important to include both international relations scholars and classics scholars. Dick had an abiding faith in the power of the liberal arts and interdisciplinary study to open the minds of young people. It is no small coincidence, I believe, that for much of Dick’s career in the department, we shared a floor with the Classics Department. When Dick decided to focus his scholarly attention on Thucydides, he did not have to go far to find a willing teacher of ancient Greek in his office neighbor, the late Carl Harris. When we invited the Classics Department to participate, they jumped in with enthusiasm, providing both financial support and the valuable participation of two of their faculty with expertise in both classical language and history.The essays that follow are the proceedings from the symposium held on March 22, 2019 in DeTamble Auditorium in Tribble Hall on the Wake Forest campus. We did not ask the participants to write formal papers, but instead to share reflections on Thucydides from an international relations or classicist perspective, taking into account Sears’ writing about the importance of teaching Thucydides in international relations. The essays are published in the order in which they were presented that day; the volume ends with an essay that Professor Sears prepared on Thucydides’ importance in the teaching of international politics.Dick Sears was a beloved and exemplary teacher-scholar. He took seriously both his students and the notion that a liberal arts education should teach students to ask big questions and think critically about the world, human nature, and pesky concepts like justice. Through the symposium and these proceedings we remember him and honor his commitments.

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