Past Editions
February 14, 2025
February 16, 2024
Venue: Restaurant Augustiner Stammhaus
Topic: Insights from MSC Conversations and Discussion
Speakers:
- John McLaughlin (B'66, '66), SAIS Professor of Practice
- Sergey Radchenko, SAIS Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor
- Thomas Rid, Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and SAIS Professor of Strategic Studies
February 17, 2023
Venue: Restaurant Zum Franziskaner
Topic: Reflection of this year's most pressing topics discussed at the MSC, highlighting the EU and USA role facing the growing global challenges, including the war in Ukraine
Speakers:
- Norbert Röttgen, MP, long-standing head of the Bundestag Foreign Relations Committee and former Federal Minister for Environment
- Sergey Radchenko, SAIS Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor
February 14, 2020
Venue: TUM School of Governance and Restaurant Spatenhaus
Topic: Reflection of the international community's incapability to react to the global challenges of our times while discussing possible ways of responsive actions
Speakers:
- Michael Plummer (B'82), Director, SAIS Europe
- Hans Maull, Sr. Disitinguished Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik and Adjunct Professor of International Relations, SAIS Europe
- Andrew B. Denison (SAIS PhD'96), Director, Transatlantic Networks
- Andrew Cohen, (B'89, DC'89), Communications Director, Pew Research Center
- Jacob Poushter, Associate Director, Pew Research Center
- Erich Vad, Gen. ret. and former security policy advisor, Federal Chancellery
- Tyson Barker (B'06, DC'07), Program Director and Fellow, Aspen Institute Germany
February 15, 2019
Venue: Bratwurst Glöckl am Dom
Topic: Security Challenges in Europe
Speakers:
- Karl-Heinz Kamp, President of the Federal Academy of Security Policy (Berlin)
- Vali Nasr, Dean, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
- Michael Plummer, Director of SAIS Europe
February 16, 2018
Venue: Spatenhaus an der Oper
Topic: Current Geopolitical Challenges in light of the MSC 2018
Speakers:
- Thomas Rid, Cybersecurity Expert and Professor for Strategic Studies at SAIS Washington
- Matthew Harries, Managing Editor of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy and Adjunct Professor for Strategic Studies at SAIS Europe
February 17, 2017
Venue: Spatenhaus an der Oper
Topic: Challenges in the transatlantic relationship following the inauguration of the new US President
Speakers:
- Vali Nasr, Dean, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Josef Joffe, publisher-editor Die Zeit (JHU Krieger School, 1967)
- Andreas Nick, MP (Bundestag)
February 12, 2016
Venue: Restaurant Alter Hof
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East
Speakers: Vali Nasr, Dean of JHU SAIS
February 6, 2015
Venue: Restaurant Alter Hof
Speakers:
- Vali R. Nasr, Dean of SAIS
- Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies
- John E. McLaughlin, Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence
