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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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...

Thinking Seriously While There Is Still Time: Classical Economic Wisdom at the Eleventh Hour

 "The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world....At the thought of...

American Foreign Policy and Nuclear War: Existential Crisis Management In A Time Of Plague

Abstract: For the moment, Americans devote scant attention to any apparent risks of a nuclear war, but whatever residual attention remains centered on such...

Fighting Existential Angst: Vainly Seeking “Therapy” On The Social Networks

"The crowd is untruth."-Sören Kierkegaard, Point of View, That Individual Early philosophical explorations of anxiety are best traced to Sören Kierkegaard in the nineteenth century....

The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States

“It is only in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."-Albert Camus, The Plague Americans...

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