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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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

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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...

Pensacola Rampage, Counter-Terrorism and Power Over Death

“’I believe’ is the great word against metaphysical fear, and at the same time it is a promising avowal of love.”-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the...

It’s Back to “Rocket Man”: Trump Steadily expanding risks of a Nuclear war With North Korea

“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind, and not merely when the accident...

U.S. Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Though U.S. President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any seriously analytic assessment of...

Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."-Plato, The Republic For US President Donald J. Trump, policy making...

Fragmentation or Unity: A Core US Foreign Policy Choice

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”-Theodore Roethke (American poet) In essence, Donald Trump’s ideas about “America First” represent a retrograde vote for expanding...

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