Rebecca Skoryanc, Author at WestExec Advisors

Mike Singh quoted in Financial Times article, “Bahrain Joins UAE in Normalising Relations with Israel”

"Mike Singh, a former director of Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, said that while Mr. Trump has long been focused on a 'deal of the century' between Israelis and Palestinians, administration officials have 'always felt there was more progress to be made between Israel and US allies in the Gulf than between the Israelis and Palestinians...'" Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:24:33-04:00September 11, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “What’s Biden’s New China Policy? It Looks a Lot Like Trump’s”

"Biden advisers see China policy as just as much about rebuilding the U.S. economy as containing China’s. 'The debate should be about who’s going to make America more competitive,' says Ely Ratner, a Biden national security aide in the Obama administration now at the Center for a New American Security..." Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:22:40-04:00September 10, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Mike Singh quoted in Radio Free Europe article, “With Nuclear Deal on The Line, Iran Has Plenty at Stake in the U.S. Election”

"Michael Singh, a managing director at the Washington Institute and former senior director at the National Security Council, said the JCPOA was 'effectively dead,' regardless of the outcome of the election..." Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:06:44-04:00September 10, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Celeste Wallander interviewed on CSIS’ Babel podcast, “Russia in the Middle East: Part One”

"In the first episode of our new narrative podcast miniseries, Russia in the Middle East, Jon Alterman gives an overview of Russian policy in the Middle East and how the Middle East fits into Russia’s worldview. He covers Russia's return to the Middle East and looks at how Russian foreign policy has changed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Jon also sits down with Dmitri Trenin, director of Carnegie's Moscow Center, and Celeste Wallander, president and CEO of the U.S.-Russia [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:01:04-04:00September 10, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Danny Russel writes in South China Morning Post: “US Election: How China’s Actions During the Presidential Transition Could Make or Break Sino-US Relations”

"Now that Joe Biden has named his running mate and both US political parties have held their conventions, the 2020 election campaign is under way in earnest. The ups and downs of the summer have been just a prelude to the electoral battle of the next two months..." Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T21:58:07-04:00September 10, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Michèle Flournoy interviewed in Bloomberg article, “…Trump’s Damage to Military”

"'Unless we have a new leadership that our allies believe they can count on, I don’t believe our alliances can survive another four years of what they’ve just experienced,' Flournoy said in an interview on Tuesday. 'That will leave the U.S. much more alone in the world and much less able to address shared interests, whether it’s climate change, nonproliferation, the next pandemic...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:40:54-04:00September 9, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy profiled in Foreign Affairs Career Center article, “How I Got Here: Michèle Flournoy”

"[As a kid, I wanted to be] An architect. I loved engineering, drafting floor plans, designing fantasy houses. I figured out how to convert my uncle’s house to solar power (at least in my head). My high school had an engineering and architecture program, and I took everything in it, went to the state fair, all that stuff. I was lucky to have a college counselor who said, 'It’s hard to know what you really want to do when you’re 16. [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:03:11-04:00September 9, 2020|WestExec Spotlight|

Dan Shapiro writes with David Makovsky in The Washington Post: “Here’s How Palestinians Could Benefit from the Diplomatic Deal Between Israel and the United Arab Emirates”

"Some observers seem to assume that the recent agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates means the end of efforts to achieve a reasonable, two-state outcome to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Some Israelis may hope that improving relations with Arab states would obviate the need for further negotiations with the Palestinians..." Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T21:54:26-04:00September 9, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

WestExec Welcomes General Vincent Brooks, USA (Ret.) and Ambassador Dana Shell Smith

WestExec Advisors, LLC helps business leaders make the best decisions by advising on geopolitical risk and emerging opportunities. Washington, DC – WestExec Advisors is pleased to announce General Vincent “Vince” Brooks, USA (Ret.) and Ambassador Dana Shell Smith have joined its distinguished team of principals and senior advisors. General Brooks retired from active duty in January 2019 as the four-star general in command of U.S. Forces Korea. In this position, he concurrently commanded United Nations Command as well as the Republic [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T21:46:33-04:00September 8, 2020|Press Releases|

Ely Ratner quoted in The New York Times article, “Joe Biden’s China Journey”

"'Across the ideological spectrum, we in the U.S. foreign policy community have remained deeply invested in expectations about China — about its approach to economics, domestic politics, security and global order — even as evidence against them has accumulated,'” [Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner] wrote. “'The policies built on such expectations have failed to change China in the ways we intended or hoped...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-09-30T22:42:43-04:00September 6, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

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