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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Viva la Muerte!: Gun Violence And America’s Culture Of Death

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Analyzing Vladimir Putin: Is Joe Biden Dealing With A “Normal” Adversary?

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Fragmentation, Aggression, Genocide: Deeper Meanings of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

“But tell me, my brothers, if humanity still lacks a goal, is humanity itself not still lacking? Thus inquired Zarathustra.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra It’s hard to...

Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

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Managing “Friction” In Ukraine: Russia, The United States And Inadvertent Nuclear War

“Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is.”-Karl von Clausewitz, On War The “Friction” of Nuclear Crisis Amid multiplying perils...

Yearnings For Immortality: World Politics, Realpolitik and Power Over Death

Abstract: “Individual man sees in his country,” says Heinrich von Treitschke in Lectures on Politics, “the realization of his earthly immortality.” Though difficult to...

Has “The Worst” Become Plausible?: Rising Risks Of A Nuclear War With North Korea

“The worst does sometime happen.”-Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Playwright World System Structure and National Security More worrisome than other perils, North Korea’s recent missile tests suggest steadily...

Trump University: The Former President’s Most Forgotten Defilement

“The university is the temple of intellect, and I am its high priest.”-Miguel de Unamuno, speaking against irrationalism as rector of the University of...

Preventing Nuclear War in the Middle East: Science, System and “Vision”

"A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step."-Karl R. Popper -The Logic of...

Perils of Belligerent Nationalism: The Urgent Obligations of Planetary Community

"...the worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction.”-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming By definition, former President Donald J. Trump's...

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