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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Justice, Insurgency and the Gaza War: An International Law Perspective

"Justice is a contract neither to do nor to suffer wrong."-Plato, Republic Abstract: This essay will  focus upon current issues of insurgency, counterterrorism and Humanitarian...

A Time For Candor: What Have We Learned From The Pandemic?

"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 (1971) By...

A Provident Posture for Israel: Facing Nuclear Iran as an Intellectual Problem

"Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence." Sun-Tzu, The Art of War Mitigating Trump-Policy Mistakes Though Donald Trump sought to convince...

Seeking Power Over Death: Lethal Mainspring Of World Politics

Abstract: At its core, history is the determinable record of humankind's struggle for and against death. Though such a bold assertion might first appear...

A Stain on Jewish Values: Israel’s Misguided Obeisance to Donald Trump

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary.... Rabbi Hillel, Babylonian Talmud,...

After The Abraham Accords: Nuclear Deterrence And Nuclear War In The Middle East

Though the Trump-brokered Abraham Agreements with selected Sunni Arab states might first appear sensible, there is actually little here to celebrate. In essence, these...

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

"All our dignity consists in thought....It is upon this that we must depend...Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of...

Trump’s Wrongful Pardons for International Law Violations

"....he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States...."Article 2, Section 2, US Constitution ABSTRACT: At the time of...

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...

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