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.

Exclusive articles:

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...

To Prevent a Nuclear War: America’s Overriding Policy Imperative

Abstract: Though current US defense policy centers on matters of conventional war and terrorism, other problems remain more existentially worrisome. Most conspicuous in this...

Murderous Immortalities: Taliban Victory, Palestinian “Resistance” and Jihadi Terrorism

“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”-Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) Taliban Victory and Jihadi Terror: Strategic and Legal Connections At the surface,...

North Korea’s Nuclear Shadow: A Worrisome Expansion

Abstract: The nuclear news from North Korea remains clear and threatening.  Ignoring both political warnings and legal prohibitions, Kim Jong Un has continued testing...

Presidential Irrationality and Wrongdoing in US Nuclear Command Authority

Abstract: In post-World War II memory, no greater political danger has confronted the United States than the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Endowed with...

Can Israeli Nuclear Threats Protect Against Non-Nuclear Attacks?

Abstract: It is widely assumed that a state’s nuclear weapons and strategy are irrelevant to non-nuclear threats. A contrary argument is advanced by Louis...

Much Deeper Meanings of Afghanistan

“Happy are those who know that behind all speeches are still the unspeakable lies….”-Rainer Maria Rilke, Possibility of Being Rilke, the Dionysian poet, is generally...

The Infinite Insignificance of Donald J. Trump

“Life can only be understood backwards: but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard For good reason, millions of Americans remain wary of any Trump return...

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