The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC 2025) took place from February 14 to 16, 2025…. in Munich 😉

MSC is a world’s leading forum for debating international security policy. For more than 60 years, the conference has been promoting international dialogue, offering a platform for global decision-makers. And often described as the place to take the temperature of world politics and assess the state of the transatlantic partnership.

The Munich Security Report 2025 focuses on multipolarization: Is the world really entering an era defined by multipolarity?

It has become a truism of foreign policy debates that the world is becoming ever more “multipolar.” While the extent to which today’s world is already multipolar is debatable, the world’s “multipolarization” is a fact: On the one hand, power is shifting toward a larger number of actors who have the ability to influence key global issues. On the other hand, the world is experiencing increasing polarization both between and within many states, which is hampering joint approaches to global crises and threats.

Two charts: Great power indicators and Risk Heatmap.

Too much information, sure, but worth having a look (food for thought).

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Tobias Bunde, Sophie Eisentraut, and Leonard Schütte (eds.), Munich Security Report 2025: Multipolarization, Munich: Munich Security Conference, February 2025, https://doi.org/10.47342/EZUC8623.

Featured Image: MSC, Westlessness Reloaded?