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    Joseph R. BidenFormer Vice President of the United States

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Munich Security Report 2020: "Westlessness"

Is the world becoming less Western? Is the West itself becoming less Western, too? The Munich Security Report 2020 sheds light on the phenomenon that it refers to as "Westlessness".

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Munich Young Leaders Anniversary Report: "Multilateralism is Dead. Long Live Multilateralism!"

On the 10th anniversary of the Munich Young Leaders Program, the MSC and Körber-Stiftung have released a…

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Launch of the Transnational Security Report in Abuja

On June 28, the eve of the ECOWAS summit, the MSC launched its new Transnational Security Report "Cooperating Across Borders: Tackling Illicit Flows" in Nigeria.

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Transnational Security Report – "Cooperating Across Borders: Tackling Illicit Flows"

Titled "Cooperating Across Borders: Tackling Illicit Flows", the Transnational Security Report highlights the…

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Westlessness – The Munich Security Conference 2020

At the Munich Security Conference 2020, held from February 14 to 16, hundreds of senior leaders and thinkers from politics, international organizations, business and…

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United Nations receive Ewald von Kleist Award

"In a world of growing geopolitical tension we need the UN more than ever before." With these words, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission,…

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Look back at the MSC 2020

The world has become a pretty dangerous and often lawless place. And the West seems to be going through a sort of identity crisis.

Wolfgang IschingerChairman of the Munich Security Conference

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