February 19, 1999

At a Castle in Salzburg, a Global Exchange of Ideas

By ALLAN M. WINKLER

I had heard about the Salzburg Seminar long before I was invited to lead one of its sessions. It was, I knew, a highly respected program that brought together scholars, business and civic leaders, and public figures from around the world. I also knew it was held in the Schloss Leopoldskron, an elegant, 18th-century castle in the foothills of the Austrian Alps, where The Sound of Music was filmed. But until a couple