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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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...

Poetry and Rancor: Donald Trump, America and the “Hollow Men”

"We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed men"-T S Eliot, The Hollow Men  (1925) Donald Trump did not emerge ex nihilo, from nothing. He...

Targeting Terrorist Leaders After Al-Baghdadi: Legal And Tactical Expectations

“For By Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.”-Proverbs, 24 (6) Under the protective tutelage of an American president, any American president, "We the People" should...

Understanding Crimes Against Humanity: Genocide, Memory And The Future

In the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's recent carte blanche to Turkey to destroy with impunity fragile Kurdish populations in Syria, the "civilized" world stands...

Donald Trump, War and the Shape of Chaos

“And we are here as on a darkling plain, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night”. -Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach With the...

Donald Trump, Foreign Policy Incoherence and Inadvertent Nuclear War

"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 on the...

When Democracy Becomes the Problem: Why So Many Millions Still Support Donald Trump

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac For understanding the context of social life, Honoré de Balzac...

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