John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) and Ian Bremmer (President and Founder, Eurasia Group).
John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).
Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) and John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).
Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey), Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah (Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar), Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies), John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) and Ian Bremmer (President and Founder, Eurasia Group).
Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina), Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the European Commission; High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU).
Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the European Commission; High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU), Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina) and Wolfgang Ischinger.
Horst Seehofer (Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria), Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.), Wolfgang Ischinger.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit) and Wolfgang Ischinger.
Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit) and Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.).
Horst Seehofer (Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria), Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.), Wolfgang Ischinger
Energy and Climate Security
Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Sheldon Whitehouse, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism for the Senate Committee on Judiciary,USA), Anshu Jain (Co-Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG), [[:en:Günther Oettinger|Günther Oettinger]] (Commissioner for Energy, EU), Daniel Yergin (Executive Vice President and Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates).
The Post-Conflict Conundrum
Almut Wieland-Karimi (Director, Center for International Peace Operations), Philip M. Breedlove (General, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO Allied Command Operations), Mohamed Emhemed Abdul Aziz (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), Philip Hammond (Secretary of State for Defence, UK) and Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Member of the Advisory Council, Transparency International).
Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms), Leonid Slutsky (Member of the State Duma, Chairman of the Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Compatriot Relationships, Russian Federation) and Irakli Garibashvili (Prime Minister, Georgia).
Wolfgang Ischinger and Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).
A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies).
A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Leonid Kozhara (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine), Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).
A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Leonid Kozhara (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine), Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms), Leonid Slutsky (Member of the State Duma, Chairman of the Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Compatriot Relationships, Russian Federation), Irakli Garibashvili (Prime Minister, Georgia), Traian Băsescu (President, Romania) and Štefan Füle (Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, EU).
Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform), Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)
Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).
MSC at Fifty
Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Valéry Giscard D'Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Henry Kissinger (Former U.S. Secretary of State), Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany), Radosław Sikorski (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland), David Miliband (Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the UK; President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee), Josef Joffe (Editor, Die Zeit).
Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany) and William S. Cohen (Former United States Secretary of Defense).
Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Former President, French Republic), Henry Kissinger (Former Secretary of State, USA) and Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Moshe Ya’alon (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, State of Israel).
Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).
Emily Haber (State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany).
Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Wolfgang Ischinger and Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Ivo Josipović (President, Republic of Croatia), Lindsey Graham (Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, USA), Fu Ying (Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China), Shivshankar Menon (National Security Advisor, Republic of India) and James G. Stavridis (Admiral (ret.); former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University).
Joseph I. Lieberman (Former United States Senator) and John McCain (Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, USA)
Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).
Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).
Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic)
Europe
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic), Sergey Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).
Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Former President of the French Republic) and Tzipi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel).
Michael Schaefer (Chairman of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Fu Ying (Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, People's Republic of China).
Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic).
Gerald Klug (Federal Minister of Defence and Sports, Republic of Austria) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).
Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria.
Night Owl Session
The Syrian Catastrophe: Emma Bonino, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italian Republic, Najib Mikati, Prime Minister, Lebanese Republic, Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria, António Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, The New America Foundation.
The panel on "The Middle East Peace Process"
From left: Dr. [[:en:Martin S. Indyk|Martin S. Indyk]] (Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States of America; Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution), Dr. Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority), Tzipi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel), Tony Blair (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Quartet Representative on the Middle East), Moderator: Philip Stephens (Associate Editor, Financial Times).
Dr. Martin S. Indyk (Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States of America; Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution) and Dr. Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority).
Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority) and Tzivi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel).
From left: Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany), and Michael Rogers (Representative, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States of America).
Joachim Gauck (Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany) and Sebastian Kurz (Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, Republic of Austria).
From left: Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman of the Munich Security Conference) and Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority).
From left: Ruprecht Polenz (Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Berlin), Prof. Dr. Vali Nasr (Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.), Ali Akbar Salehi (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran), Moderator: Georg Mascolo (Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel, Hamburg).
Iranian Foreign Minister Salehi
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (right), and Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, during a panel discussion on Iran.
The US Congressional Delegation
Senator John McCain, leading the US Congressional Delegation, answering questions by journalists. In 2013, ten US Senators participated in the MSC.
"The Rising Powers and Global Governance"
From right: Moderator Prof. Charles A. Kupchan (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations of the United States), Song Tao (Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China), Shivshankar Menon (National Security Advisor, Republic of India), Dr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Minister of External Relations, Federative Republic of Brazil), Dr. Ng Eng Hen (Minister for Defence, Republic of Singapore, Singapore).
US Vice President Biden's speech
US Vice President Joe Biden addressing the participants of the conference.
A look into the conference hall
A view of the conference hall on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013.
Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group and former German Foreign Minister, speaks about the Eurocrisis and the future of the EU.
With Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group, to his right, and former World Bank President Robert Zoellick to his left, Wolfgang Schäuble addresses the MSC 2013.
Debating the geopolitics of energy
From right: Moderator Dr. Daniel Yergin (Vice Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates), Dr. Philipp Rösler (Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Federal Republic of Germany), Günther Oettinger (Commissioner for Energy, European Union), Aleksandr Novak (Minister of Energy, Russian Federation), Jorma Ollila (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Royal Dutch Shell), Carlos Pascual (Ambassador, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department of State).