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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Emptiness and Politics: America’s Futile Faith in Elections

“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason...

An Existential Threat: Presidential Incoherence and Nuclear War

“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.”- Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time...

Healing Amid Chaos: 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. Though...

Nuclear Escalation Scenarios: Impact Of American and Russian “Firebreak” Theories on Israeli Security Doctrine

“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.”- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) In assessing Israel’s nuclear deterrence and escalation...

“On the Evidence of Our Reason”: Why Israel Needs More Explicit Nuclear Deterrence

“Whether we are awake or asleep, we should never let ourselves be persuaded except on the evidence of our reason.” -René Descartes, Discourse on...

A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War

“As to dangers arising from an American president, the best protection is not to elect one.”-General Maxwell D. Taylor (ret.), 14 March 1976. More...

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...

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