Blue Star Strategies, LLCis an international strategic consultancy based in Washington, DC with offices in Europe and Latin America. We work with public and private sector clients to help solve business and policy challenges in the United States and in
emerging markets around the world.
Insight and Analysis
Crossroads for US-Cuba Relations
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Dan Erikson says we are at a highly sensitive moment in U.S.-Cuba relations, which requires a cool, calm, and strategic approach.
With Brexit fast approaching, Pero Jolevski summarizes the new licensing requirements facing London-based international banks that wish to continue doing business in the European Union.
Tamar Gegechkori reports on the strategic significance of this new frontier for competing interests over access and resources, including a new U.S. program to increase its fleet of polar icebreakers.
To welcome aboard our new Paris-based strategic advisor Mathilde Defarges, we organized a special working visit to Washington focused on supporting the French-American partnership
and Transatlantic investment.
It was a great week of meetings with clients and partners and featured a special welcome dinner and breakfast discussion with leaders from
the diplomatic community and private sector.
The Power of the Franco-American Alliance By Sally Painter and Mathilde Defarges, with Jeremiah Baronberg September 26, 2017 Foreign Policy Association
Tips and Recommendations
A Famous Home...in London, UK Jeff Gedmin recommends...
The Freud Museum, the former home and refuge of Sigmund Freud and his family after fleeing their native Austria and violent anti-Semitism
following the Nazi Anschluss
annexation in 1938. The home remained in the Freud family until 1982.
The house features Freud's extensive collection of antiquities, large library, beautiful garden, and his study and consultation room (which he faithfully recreated in detail to match his office in
Vienna), complete with the original famous couchon which his patients reclined.
The Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 5SX. Tel. +44 (0)20 7435 2002
What We're (Re-)Reading Sally Painter recommends...
The Federalist Papers, published anonymously in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay and a classic of Western political thought. Given the current charged political and civic atmosphere in the United States,we thought it was especially important to revisit the roots—and values—of American democracy, which are more relevant today than ever.
Written by the early American Republic's founders, The Federalist champions some of the United States' most enduring ideals and concepts such as the separation of powers, checks and balances, states' rights, pluralism, tyranny of the majority, and judicial review.
