Towards mutual security : : fifty years of Munich Security Conference / / edited by Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, Wolfgang Ischinger ; editorial team, Tobias Bunde, Antje Lein-Struck, and Adrian Oroz.

• HerausgeberIn: Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ischinger, Wolfgang,; Bunde, Tobias,; Lein-Struck, Antje,; Oroz, Adrian,; Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (495 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Die 1963 als Internationale Wehrkundebegegnung gegründete Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz hat sich mittlerweile zum führenden unabhängigen Forum für Sicherheitspolitik entwickelt. Traditionell eher als eine Art transatlantisches Familientreffen begriffen, auf dem während des Kalten Krieges die NATO-Strategie diskutiert wurde, hat die Konferenz seither ihre Agenda stetig erweitert und zieht heute Teilnehmer aus aller Welt an. Im Rahmen der jährlichen Hauptkonferenz treffen sich jedes Jahr in München Dutzende Staats- und Regierungschefs, Minister und Experten aus allen Bereichen der Sicherheitspol

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgments; Anniversary Messages; Angela Merkel: Message from the Federal Chancellor to Mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Munich Security Conference; Joseph R. Biden: Congratulating the Munich Security Conference on Fifty Years of Contributions to Transatlantic Security; Wolfgang Reitzle: The 50th Munich Security Conference - Security Policy in the Era of Globalization; The Chairmen; Wolfgang Ischinger: Towards Mutual Security: From Wehrkunde to the Munich Security Conference

Horst Teltschik: The Munich Conference on Security Policy - Continuity and ChangeJohn McCain: Remembering Ewald von Kleist; Peter C. Hughes and Theresa M. Sandwith: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist: The Man behind Wehrkunde; Wehrkunde and the Cold War; Theo Sommer in Conversation with Helmut Schmidt; Lothar Rühl: The Discussions in the Critical Period of the East-West Conflict from the Mid-Sixties to the Early Nineties; Uwe Nerlich: Wehrkunde and the Transatlantic Nuclear Discourse; Egon Bahr: "The Shorter the Range, the Deader the Germans"

Karl Kaiser: NATO's Double-Track Decision, the Peace Movement, and Arms ControlRichard Burt: Wehrkunde and the End of the Cold War; Sam Nunn: Countering Nuclear Threats: From Cold War Wehrkunde to Today's Munich Security Conference; New Challenges after the End of the Cold War; Carl Bildt: Why Didn't We Stop the Bosnia War Earlier? Thoughts and Lessons; Ulrich Weisser: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Admission of New Members to NATO; Klaus Naumann: The 1999 Munich Conference on Security Policy-Paving the Way for the Kosovo Air Campaign Operation Allied Force

Rudolf Scharping: Key Meetings at the Margins-Kosovo and the Munich ConferenceGeorge Robertson: The Margins at Munich: The Conference from Kosovo to Iraq; James L. Jones: The Munich Security Conference in the Post-9/11 Era; Kerstin Müller: The Iraq War and the Transatlantic Rift; Javier Solana: Capacity for Adaptation: The Munich Conference and European Security; Euro-Atlantic Security in a Globalized World; John Kerry: Transatlantic Ties That Must Still Bind; Guido Westerwelle: Peace and Security in Germany, Europe, and the World

Thomas de Maizière: The Transatlantic Partnership-The Foundation of German Security PolicyChuck Hagel: The Munich Security Conference at Fifty: The Challenge of Change; Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Keeping NATO Strong; James Stavridis: NATO: Quo Vadis?; Ruprecht Polenz: The United States, Europe, and a Pivot to Reality; Constanze Stelzenmüller: Indispensable Partners in an Uncertain World; Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Euro-Atlantic Security: Before and after the "Reset"; Igor S. Ivanov: The Munich Security Conference and the Russia-NATO Relationship

Volker Perthes: Enter the Arab People: The Munich Security Conference, the Middle East, and the Arab Revolts