What to expect from the Munich Security Conference?

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"The US-Iran crisis will be very much an agenda-setter as Munich provides a platform for both the Iranians and anti-Iran hawks from the US and Israel to make their voices heard," Andreas Krieg, assistant professor at King's College London, told Al Jazeera.

"For the most part though, the conference is usually a backdrop for heated clashes over narratives rather than provide a forum to actually solve security issues.

"So nobody expects that the US and Iran will actually use the conference to open backchannels."

"There is a realisation that in the 21st-century world, the West is just one of many poles to shape the global security environment," said Krieg.

Period	14 Feb 2020
Held at	Al Jazeera, Qatar