Atlantic Review

The world's leading defense conference celebrated it's 50th anniversary this year and the debates were fascinating and met the expectations. I have curated tweets from participants and tweeted myself based on the livestream on Saturday. Here's a selection of what I think are the most interesting Tweets on Germany, China/Japan and general history lessons.

This is followed by some criticism about a lack of diversity as well as photos from a panel of 90+ year old statesmen, of four female defense ministers (less than half the age, I guess), an embarrassing selfie from a CEO, and of the demonstration outside.

Continue reading "Highlights from the Munich Security Conference 2014"

Douglas Muir found an interesting NY Times article that describes why birthrates vary so much across Europe and how some East German cities to handle population decline. See his post in A Fistful of Euros.