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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Presidential Irrationality and Wrongdoing in US Nuclear Command Authority

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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

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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...

Looking Back at the Trump Presidency: An Informed Retrospective

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United States- Iran Nuclear Crises: Portents for Israel

ABSTRACT: In response to former US President Donald J. Trump's unilateral American withdrawal from the July 2015 Iran Pact (JCPOA), the Islamic Republic of...

Still Asking the Wrong Questions: A Perilous American Error

“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) How...

A Summit of Consequence? Great Power Diplomacy and Inadvertent Nuclear War

"In a surrealist year…. some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his...

Risks of a Nuclear War With North Korea: The Obligation of Intellect-Based Remedies

"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) Intellect and National Security In the end, nothing could...

Staying Focused: Why Israel Needs More Coherent Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy

Falling towers, Jerusalem Athens Alexandria, Vienna London, Unreal.-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land On fundamental issues of national survival, the new Israeli prime minister must remain...

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