Robert Silverman
Robert Silverman
Executive Editor
The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Israel
Robert J. Silverman is the Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, a foreign affairs journal that highlights American and Israeli writers. He is also a lecturer in the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department at Shalem College and the President of IJMA - the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that brings together Jewish and Muslim leaders of civil society in the U.S. and Germany to address inter-communal bigotry and advocate for common public policy goals. Formerly a senior United States diplomat, he served as the elected president of the 17,000-member American Foreign Service Association and, while at the State Department, as political counselor to the U.S. embassy in Israel, economic counselor to the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia, Charge d’Affaires to the U.S. Embassy in Sweden, and director of the Iraq Reconstruction office in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Silverman received a Master of Public Administration from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Friday 12
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15.10 - 15.55
Geopolitics and Today's Middle East
Artemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Programming Partner: RAND Corporation
The present war in Gaza and the Abraham Accords have changed the dynamics to today’s Middle East. While we do not know where the Israel-Palestinian conflict will be in six months, there will undoubtedly be a new dimension to geopolitical rivalries in the region. The Houthis started attacking ships in the Red Sea in October 2023, but just one month before at the G20 summit, leading nations and the European Union announced a potential new India-Middle East-Europe Corridor. U.S. policy priorities are changing, from a disengagement preference at the beginning of the present Administration to once again trying to shape a new security and economic future for the region. Change is also important for Europe — and Greece — as the first European point of contact for the proposed IMEC is Piraeus. The panel will look beyond the Gaza war to U.S.-Europe-Middle East economic potential, including transit and technology, and likely Chinese, Iranian and Russian strategies in response.