Prof. Louis René Beres

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LOUIS RENÉ BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue. His twelfth and most recent book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel's Nuclear Strategy (2016) (2nd ed., 2018) https://paw.princeton.edu/new-books/surviving-amid-chaos-israel%E2%80%99s-nuclear-strategy Some of his principal strategic writings have appeared in Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); International Security (Harvard University); Yale Global Online (Yale University); Oxford University Press (Oxford University); Oxford Yearbook of International Law (Oxford University Press); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); Special Warfare (Pentagon); Modern War Institute (Pentagon); The War Room (Pentagon); World Politics (Princeton); INSS (The Institute for National Security Studies)(Tel Aviv); Israel Defense (Tel Aviv); BESA Perspectives (Israel); International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; The Atlantic; The New York Times and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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A Time to Stop Laughing: Trump Policies and Nuclear War

“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the terrible news.”- Bertolt Brecht On April 7, 2026, after launching an American war against Iran,...

Managing Nuclear Risk: American and Israeli Obligations

“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...

Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: Problems of Credibility

“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” -Herman Kahn, Thinking About...

A Civilizational Struggle: Truth Versus Shadow in World Politics

“To them. I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. That is certain.” -Plato, The Republic Plato’s Cave and...

God, Death and Time: Deciphering Iran’s War Priorities

“Clocks slay time.”- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Donald Trump’s war against Iran ignores critical aspects of that country’s strategic calculus.Among other things,the...

Drifting Toward Chaos: Donald Trump, Iran and Nuclear War

 “The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935) It’s no...

Well-Reasoned Scenarios: Israel, Iran and Nuclear War

“Then fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”-Archilochus At first glance, the June 2025 military operation against Iran carried no risks...

A Planetary Obligation: Listening to Reason at the Eleventh Hour

“When you have listened to Reason, it is wise to agree that all things are one.” - Heraclitus, Fragments In world politics, nothing is disconnected....

Rescuing the American Republic: Time to Look “Backwards” and “Forwards”

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard  Roman god Janus is depicted looking in two directions at once....

“Dignity” and “Thought”: When the American President Declares War on Reason

“All our dignity consists in thought.”-Blaise Pascal, Pensées It’s a New Year. For the most part, penetrating thought remains the veiled province of academic specialists....

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