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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Charting an American Return to Reason: Nuclear Policy Goals on North Korea

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Trump’s Wrongful Pardons for International Law Violations

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Donald Trump, Insurrection and the American “Horde”

"The mass man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh." Jose Ortega y' Gasset, The Revolt of the...

Looking Back: The Trump Presidency as Triumph of Absurdity

Hamm: "What time is it"? Clov: "The same as usual." Samuel  Beckett, Endgame Credo quia absurdum, said the ancient philosopher. "I believe because it is absurd." Are...

Nuclear Challenges from Pyongyang: Preparing Joe Biden for the Next Chapter

"For by wise counsel thou shall make thy war...."-Proverbs, 24/6 Understanding the Present Moment Incoming US President Joseph Biden faces both direct and indirect threats of...

After The Trump Horror Will America’s Next President Be “Normal?”

After enduring four years of a soiled and dissembling presidency, US voters are entitled to raise a once inconceivable question. Before voting in the...

“Living On Mountains”: Antecedents of a Dignified and Secure World Order

"One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra During the...

Looking Back: Donald Trump, Israel and the Costs of Complicity

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming From the start of his sordid presidency, Donald...

Caligula Goes Covid: Nuclear Perils of Trump’s Last Days

"The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows."-Albert Camus, Caligula It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons,...

Exiting Donald Trump’s “Heart Of Darkness”: What Have We Learned?

"It ain't over till it's over," we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra. Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at...

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