Towards Mutual Security (eBook)

Wolfgang Ischinger ist seit 2008 Vorsitzender der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz und berät die Allianz SE. Der Karrierediplomat war u.a. Leiter des Planungsstabs, Politischer Direktor und Staatssekretär im Auswärtigen Amt sowie deutscher Botschafter in den USA und im Vereinigten Königreich.

Cover 
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Title Page 
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Copyright 
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Table of Contents 
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Body 
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Acknowledgments 12
Anniversary Messages 14
Angela Merkel: Message from the Federal Chancellor to Mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Munich Security Conference 16
Joseph R. Biden: Congratulating the Munich Security Conference on Fifty Years of Contributions to Transatlantic Security 20
Wolfgang Reitzle: The 50th Munich Security Conference — Security Policy in the Era of Globalization 24
The Chairmen 28
Wolfgang Ischinger: Towards Mutual Security: From Wehrkunde to the Munich Security Conference 30
Horst Teltschik: The Munich Conference on Security Policy — Continuity and Change 38
John McCain: Remembering Ewald von Kleist 46
Peter C. Hughes and Theresa M. Sandwith: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist: The Man behind Wehrkunde 50
Wehrkunde and the Cold War 80
Theo Sommer in Conversation with Helmut Schmidt 82
Lothar Rühl: The Discussions in the Critical Period of the East-West Conflict from the Mid-Sixties to the Early Nineties 94
Uwe Nerlich: Wehrkunde and the Transatlantic Nuclear Discourse 104
Egon Bahr: “The Shorter the Range, the Deader the Germans” 114
Karl Kaiser: NATO’s Double-Track Decision, the Peace Movement, and Arms Control 120
Richard Burt: Wehrkunde and the End of the Cold War 130
Sam Nunn: Countering Nuclear Threats: From Cold War Wehrkunde to Today’s Munich Security Conference 134
New Challenges after the End of the Cold War 142
Carl Bildt: Why Didn’t We Stop the Bosnia War Earlier? Thoughts and Lessons 144
Ulrich Weisser: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Admission of New Members to NATO 152
Klaus Naumann: The 1999 Munich Conference on Security Policy—Paving the Way for the Kosovo Air Campaign Operation Allied Force 162
Rudolf Scharping: Key Meetings at the Margins—Kosovo and the Munich Conference 168
George Robertson: The Margins at Munich: The Conference from Kosovo to Iraq 172
James L. Jones: The Munich Security Conference in the Post-9/11 Era 194
Kerstin Müller: The Iraq War and the Transatlantic Rift 202
Javier Solana: Capacity for Adaptation: The Munich Conference and European Security 210
Euro-Atlantic Security in a Globalized World 218
John Kerry: Transatlantic Ties That Must Still Bind 220
Guido Westerwelle: Peace and Security in Germany, Europe, and the World 224
Thomas de Maizière: The Transatlantic Partnership—The Foundation of German Security Policy 232
Chuck Hagel: The Munich Security Conference at Fifty: The Challenge of Change 240
Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Keeping NATO Strong 246
James Stavridis: NATO: Quo Vadis? 252
Ruprecht Polenz: The United States, Europe, and a Pivot to Reality 260
Constanze Stelzenmüller: Indispensable Partners in an Uncertain World 270
Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Euro-Atlantic Security: Before and after the “Reset” 276
Igor S. Ivanov: The Munich Security Conference and the Russia-NATO Relationship 286
Volker Perthes: Enter the Arab People: The Munich Security Conference, the Middle East, and the Arab Revolts 294
Omid Nouripour: Not the Whole Picture: The History of the Incomplete Answer to Iran’s Nuclear Threat 304
Kevin Rudd: Europe, the United States, and the Rise of the Asia-Pacific 312
Eberhard Sandschneider: Asia’s Rise and Asia’s Risks 320
Nikolaus von Bomhard: Climate Change and Its Impact on Security 326
Friedbert Pflüger: The Shifting Geopolitics of Energy—The Green and Shale Revolution 336
Jane Harman: Moving the Conversation Forward on Nuclear Disarmament 346
Anne-Marie Slaughter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet? The Impact of Social Media on Global Politics 352
Keith B. Alexander: The New Frontier: Cyberspace and International Security 358
Toomas Hendrik Ilves: Cyberspace and International Security 368
Spotlights on the Conference 374
Joseph I. Lieberman: A Constant Reminder of the Transatlantic Alliance’s Strategic and Moral Imperative 376
Hans-Ulrich Klose: Good Arguments Are What Matters 380
William S. Cohen: Little Patience for Frivolous Speeches—A Personal Remembrance of Wehrkunde and Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist 384
Charles Powell: The Munich Security Conference: A British Perspective 388
Jim Hoagland: The German-American Relationship Remains at the Conference’s Heart 394
Stefan Kornelius: Talking Points. The Conference between Genuine Debate, Catwalk, 
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Ulrich Wilhelm: From Munich to the World:Broadcasting the MSC 406
Catherine McArdle Kelleher: “I Didn’t Know They Were Letting Girls Go to Wehrkunde” 410
Klaus Wehmeier and Thomas Paulsen: The Munich Young Leaders 416
Josef Joffe: Fasching, Family Reunions, and Hard Power. The Munich Security Conference, the Alliance, and International Security—A Very Personal Remembrance 420
Mutual Security in the Twenty-First Century 426
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: The Future of Power inthe Twenty-First Century 428
Strobe Talbott: Atlanticism in the Era of Globalization 434
François Heisbourg: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be 452
Rados aw Sikorski: Munich Security Conference 1963–2063: The European Union as a Superpower? 464
Appendix 470
Image Credits 490
List of Abbreviations 492
Back Cover 
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