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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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...

Avoiding Nuclear War in the “State of Nature”: America’s Responsibility

“So the nature of war consists not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance...

Existential Perils From Iran: Israel’s Options in Law and Strategy

Abstract: Eleventh-hour diplomacy notwithstanding, few tangible barriers remain in the way of an Iranian nuclear capability. If Israel should decide that it no longer...

Reason, Science and Empathy: Interrelated Foundations of American Survival

“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as...

Reason Versus Anti-Reason: America’s Primal Struggle

“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 (1952) After...

Following The “Magicians”: Origins of America’s Political Defilement

"The masses have followed the magicians again and again...Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in a clear...

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