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

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

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...

Truth and Shadow: To Understand A Lethal American Presidency

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."-Plato, The Republic Though derelictions of an unprecedented sort, even...

To Ease the Horror: U.S. Elections, World History and the Withering Promise of Life on Earth

"The horror, the horror," mumbles the Marlon Brando character in Apocalypse Now. Though merely cinematic, this sentiment exclaims a brutally truthful observation: While each...

The Trump Presidency and Israel: An Injurious Patronage

Abstract: Despite widely-held presumptions in Israel that US President Donald J. Trump remains a net asset for their country, nothing could be further from...

Recycling Power Politics: For America, A Lethal “Resurrection”

"The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself' is false, and...

Donald Trump and Nuclear Weapons: A Perilous “Fusion” For Israel

"All accidental wars are inadvertent and unintended, but not vice-versa."-Herman Kahn, On Escalation (1965) It stands to reason that any combination of Donald Trump and...

The American Triumph of “Mass-Man”: A Lethal Ascent

"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 Masses...

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