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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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...

Nuclear Decision-Making and Presidential Authority: Existential Perils of the Trump Era

"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."- W.H. Auden It is no longer just a casual apprehension. Now, an inappropriate or irrational nuclear command decision by US...

Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold….

Core  legal arguments to preserve, protect and defend the United States from the presidency of Donald J. Trump  Whatever the still-expanding bill of particulars, Donald Trump's principles...

Politics as Reflection: Even in an Election Year, Real Change Must Come From “Below”

"What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another, of seeking justification always on the same plane?"-Samuel Beckett, Endgame Again and again, in...

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Rising US Bond Yields Put Washington Under Pressure: What Comes Next?

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