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Snow is Still White in the Fields…Personal Notes on the Margins of the Munich Security Conference

... regard. Perhaps the highlight of the string of somewhat self-congratulatory “reports on the work done” was the speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif, who once again demonstrated the superior class of Iranian diplomacy. Mohammad Zarif raised the fundamental question of creating a collective security system in the Middle East which would provide a long-term multilateral unifying project for today’s opponents and rivals. As one might have guessed, the ...

17.02.2016

A Case for Smoke Room Diplomacy

... seems impossible to talk when everyone’s listening The Munich Security Conference is a perfect place to talk and listen. But it seems impossible to talk when everyone’s listening. One would imagine that the 2016 Munich Security Conference (MSC) is the event of the season for all those who care about stopping the suffering of millions of people all over the world. The reasons for that suffering or fear thereof are easy to list just by taking a quick look at any media front page – Syria,...

17.02.2016

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