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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN SECURITY

Leadership in a World of

Disintegration

Klaus Schweinsberg is is more than fifty years old. It has disintegration: the capital market
a Professor for Strategy become the most important get- puts enormous pressure on large
and Founder of the Centre together for enlightening insights and conglomerates to produce spin-
for Strategy and Higher personal views on the state of the offs. "We meet at a critical time"
Leadership. He is also a world and serves as a platform to get was the opening statement of U.S.
respected adviser to renowned a picture of the challenges leaders National Security Advisor General
entrepreneurs and CEOs in will face in the near future. H.R. McMaster. And it is true: 2018
leading corporations. will be critical – not only when it
This year’s conference conveyed a comes to the nuclear conflict with
For three days every February clear message: We live in a world of North Korea or the escalating rhetoric
hundreds of heads of state disintegration. The post-war world between Israel’s Premier Netanyahu,
order is dead. We went from G7 to Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif and Saudi
and ministers and an ever G8 and G20 and have now arrived Foreign Minister Al-Jubeir, all of
at G0. Or as the Trump administration whom were present in Munich. 2018
growing number of global put it bluntly: "There is no such will be critical for the business world
thing as a global community but an as well, Christine Lagarde, Managing
CEOs get together for the Munich arena where nations compete for Director of the International Monetary
advantage." At the level of nation Fund (IMF), pointed out.
Security Conference (MSC). The states we see a remarkable rise of
nationalism and protectionism on Now is the critical moment to prepare
history of this high-level meeting the one hand and regions fighting the leaders in your companies for
for more autonomy on the other. challenging times: they need to know
Many western states suffer from which risks they will have to face up
a disintegration of the traditional to. And they need to be trained to
parties. But also in the business manage these new risks properly.
world we observe many signs of

Wolfgang Ischinger Warns of Increased Security Risk

Munich Security Conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger has urgently
warned of growing security threats facing the world. He recently said

ahead of the Munich Security Conference meeting that the danger of war
was at its highest in decades.

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