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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Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?

"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) Toward the close of World War II, with...

What If A North Korea Nuclear Crisis Should Coincide With Election Loss For Donald J. Trump?

"I hold despicable, and always have, anyone who puts his own popularity before his country."-Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes Democrat presidential candidate...

When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur

"Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots...

Preparing For The Next Round Of Belligerent Nationalism

“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...

Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair

 “The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard The "crowd," cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is  “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more...

From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension

"....till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from...

Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?

"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the...

If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War

"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."-W.H. Auden Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Corona virus - grievous...

War And Pandemic: Expanding Complexities Of Israeli Nuclear Strategy

"I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make...

Beyond The Pandemic: American Strategic Survival In A Time Of Plague

"Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as...

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