The Ukraine crisis has given the Munich Security Conference (MSC) greater prominence this year, as world leaders and top diplomats meet for the annual gathering in southern Germany. At the centre of the next three days of speeches, debates and question-and-answer sessions is perhaps Germany’s best-known commentator on international relations, Wolfgang Ischinger. Ischinger has already made headlines in the run-up to the conference, challenging Russia to send at least one representative to the meeting – although he conceded it would have “limited enjoyment value” for whoever came. The former amb…