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

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

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"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...

Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."-T S Eliot, The Waste Land Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in...

Building World Order from “Plague”: Utopian, but Necessary

"In the end, we are  creatures of our own making."-Goethe, Faust From the start of the current worldwide "plague," US President Donald J. Trump has...

Nuclear Decision-Making And Covid19 Impairments: Existential Perils Of The Trump Presidency

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Presidential Evil And American Good: Can They Coexist?

If men or nations do evil in a good cause; if they cover themselves with guilt in order to fulfill some high responsibility; or...

Untangling Survival Intersections: Israel, Chaos and the Pandemic

"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS:  Day by day, traditional...

American Democracy and “The Barbarism of Specialisation”

"The specialist 'knows' very well his own tiny corner of the universe; he is radically ignorant of all the rest."-Jose Ortega y' Gasset, The...

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