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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Saving The Republic: A Titanic Struggle For Mind

"Truth cannot appear naked before the people."-Arthur Schopenhauer, On Man's Need of Metaphysics If America's core problems could be reduced to their barest essentials, they would coalesce around...

The Overriding Strategic Threat: Donald Trump, American “Mass” And Nuclear War

"The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever...

After Senate Trial and Presidential Acquittal: Overlooked Foundations of U.S. Constitutional Law

Lawyers on both sides of the recent Senate trial chose to ignore certain philosophic and jurisprudential foundations of the United States Constitution. These "peremptory"  foundations lie recognizably in...

After The US Presidential Acquittal: Vox Populi, Public Mass and America’s Future

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac Virtually all US politicians, irrespective of party, are fond of  celebrating...

Looking Beyond Current Crises: American Policy, Global Chaos and Collective Will

Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti's Man Pointing extends his finger accusingly. But where is he pointing, where exactly, in what discernible direction and toward whom or what in...

Looking Behind the Daily News: Informed Narratives on Israel’s Nuclear Challenges

"The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it."-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935) How shall...

Approaching the Brink? Nuclear Decision-Making by US President Trump in 2020

 "Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind.... Usually, they have wreaked havoc."-Sigmund Freud “He likes...

A Vast “Tyranny” Over Mind: Donald Trump and The Death of “High Thinking” in America

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”-Thomas Jefferson Once upon a time, Americans were...

Trump’s “Space Force”: A Predictable Future of War and Chaos

On December 20, 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act, creating the newest military service since the US Air Force was established in...

Articles of Impeachment and the “Higher Law”: An Unexamined Legal Opportunity for the United States

As presented to the United States Senate, Articles of Impeachment concerning Donald J. Trump will focus upon various pertinent elements of Constitutional and statutory law. Still, at...

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