Rebecca Skoryanc, Author at WestExec Advisors

Julianne Smith in the New York Times: “Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?”

October 12, 2018 | Opinion BERLIN — Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own hands.” In the face of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Hungary’s slide into illiberalism and an American president who viewed the European Union with disdain, Europe, she argued, needed a leader who could push forward reform and push back against [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:33:15-04:00October 12, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Dennis Ross in The Washington Post: “Saudi Arabia’s ruler should understand that the ends don’t justify the means”

October 11, 2018 | Opinion President Trump may not believe in a rules-based international order, but we may now be seeing the consequences of the absence of global norms. The Russians have no qualms about poisoning a former agent in Britain. Lately the Chinese have felt free to disappear or detain some of their most prominent citizens — from an Interpol chief to a leading actress — by extralegal means. And now it appears the Saudis may have lured journalist and [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:33:01-04:00October 11, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Lisa Monaco in Foreign Policy: “The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly”

September 28, 2018 | By Lisa Monaco, Vin Gupta There are plenty of security threats that could keep a former homeland security advisor awake. There is the possibility of a terrorist attack, a cyber-cataclysm, or any number of natural disasters—all threats that are capable of visiting destruction on entire communities in a matter of hours. Right at the top of that list is the threat of a deadly pandemic—an outbreak of infectious disease that rapidly crosses international borders. In January 2017, [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:30:57-04:00September 28, 2018|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Dan Shapiro in The New York Post: “How to make Russia back off in the Middle East”

September 25, 2018 | Opinion For the first time in decades, Israel finds itself on the receiving end of Russian threats. The tensions follow the downing last week of a Russian Ilyushin IL-20 military aircraft, and the deaths of its 15 crew members, by Syrian air-defense batteries responding to Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments in Syria. A crisis like this one cries out for US diplomacy to help manage it. So far, there’s no sign of it. Two things have [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:31:21-04:00September 25, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Bob Work and Bridge Colby in The Washington Post: “The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late”

September 17, 2018 | Opinion For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon has a genuinely new strategy: Focus on our rivals — Russia and, in particular, China — and maintain a competitive advantage over them. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warns in his 2018 National Defense Strategy that if we fail to do so, we may lose the next big war against these nations. If that happens, say goodbye to the free and open international order [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:31:38-04:00September 17, 2018|Cybersecurity & Defense|

About Rebecca Skoryanc

Julianne Smith in the New York Times: “Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?”

Dennis Ross in The Washington Post: “Saudi Arabia’s ruler should understand that the ends don’t justify the means”

Lisa Monaco in Foreign Policy: “The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly”

Dan Shapiro in The New York Post: “How to make Russia back off in the Middle East”

Bob Work and Bridge Colby in The Washington Post: “The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late”