page_title: Munich Security Conference
hierarchical_section_title: Munich Security Conference
caption_attribution_description: English: 50th Munich Security Conference 2014: What Season is next for the Middle East?: Ahmet Davutoğlu, Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, John McCain, Ian Bremmer.
context_page_description: The Munich Security Conference is an annual conference on international security policy that has taken place in Munich, Bavaria since 1963. Former names are Wehrkundetagung and Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik. It is the world's largest gathering of its kind.
  Over the past four decades the Munich Security Conference has become the most important independent forum for the exchange of views by international security policy decision-makers. Each year it brings together about 350 senior figures from more than 70 countries around the world to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
  The list of attendees includes Heads of States, Governments and International Organizations, Ministers, Members of Parliament, high-ranking representatives of Armed Forces, Science, Civil society as well as Business and Media.
  The conference is held annually in February. The venue is the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany. The 56th Security Conference was held from 14 to 16 February 2020.
context_section_description: The Munich Security Conference (MSC; German: Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz) is an annual conference on international security policy that has taken place in Munich, Bavaria since 1963. Former names are Wehrkundetagung and Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik.  It is the world's largest gathering of its kind.
  Over the past four decades the Munich Security Conference has become the most important independent forum for the exchange of views by international security policy decision-makers. Each year it brings together about 350 senior figures from more than 70 countries around the world to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
  The list of attendees includes Heads of States, Governments and International Organizations, Ministers, Members of Parliament, high-ranking representatives of Armed Forces, Science, Civil society as well as Business and Media.
  The conference is held annually in February. The venue is the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany. The 56th Security Conference was held from 14 to 16 February 2020.
caption: 50th Munich Security Conference 2014
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