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Victoria C. Gardner Coates

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Victoria C. Gardner Coates

VICTORIA C. GARDNER COATES is the vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Coates’s personal scholarship focuses on building global energy security, countering predatory Chinese activity, expanding the historic Abraham Accords, and establishing a US-led Middle East strategic alliance. The author of David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art, Coates routinely appears on TV and radio and her writing has appeared in outlets including Bloomberg, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

Coates previously served as the senior policy advisor to the secretary of energy and deputy national security advisor for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council for President Donald J. Trump. She also served as the national security advisor for Senator Ted Cruz, and director for research for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Coates holds a BA from Trinity College, an MA from Williams College, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, all in art history.

Titles by this Author

  • David’s Sling

    David’s Sling

    A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art
    Victoria C. Gardner Coates

    David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them.

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  • The Battle for the Jewish State

    The Battle for the Jewish State

    How Israel—And America—Can Win
    Victoria C. Gardner Coates

    Why does Israel exist? Why is it worthy of remaining a critical ally of the United States? Why have critical race theorists identified Israel and the U.S. as the most pernicious examples of “settler colonialism”? In The Battle for the Jewish State, Victoria Coates shows how the current conflict in Israel is not a regional issue to be resolved through an interminable diplomatic peace process. Rather, it is a broader military and cultural war that must be won for the sake not only of Israel, but of the United States.

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