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Munich Security Conference 2025

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Belfer Center experts convened at the Munich Security Conference in 2025 to contribute to the world’s leading forum for debating international security policy.

Explore Belfer work including the launch of a landmark report on the transatlantic relationship; a Belfer Center-sponsored side event on the developing adversarial alignment between Iran, North Korea, China and Russia; and watch media interviews live from the conference as our experts provide commentary on critical security issues of the day. 

 Meghan  L. O'Sullivan opening the floor to a panel conversation featuring Fiona Hill, Dmytro Kuleba, Ian Bremmer and moderated by David Sanger.

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The Case for Building a Strong European Pillar

Launching a landmark new report at MSC 2025

At the Munich Security Conference, Co-Chairs of a global Belfer Center Task Force launched A New Transatlantic Bargain: The Case for Building a Strong European Pillar – presenting a bold strategy for rebalancing the transatlantic security relationship, strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities, and redefining the U.S.-European strategic partnership in an era of shifting global threats.

Graham Allison photographed with Wang Yi
Graham Allison photographed with Wang Yi

Graham Allison meets Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China

Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the only person outside foreign governments that Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, met.

Allison recently published  Is Trump a China hawk? How Trump, like Nixon, could form a partnership with China in the Washington Post. He also told a World Economic Forum panel in Davos last month that “we’ll be surprised” by US-China improvements. 

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 Meghan  L. O'Sullivan opening the floor to a panel conversation featuring Fiona Hill, Dmytro Kuleba, Ian Bremmer and moderated by David Sanger.

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