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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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...

US-North Korea Crisis Decision- Making: Growing Risks Of Inadvertent Or Unintended Nuclear War In Asia

"We fell in love!"-US President Donald Trump, referring to North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un after Singapore Summit (June 2018) Credo quia absurdum, warned the ancient philosophers. "I...

Toward A More Thoughtful Nuclear Diplomacy: An American Strategic Imperative

"Hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are...

Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics

“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.”-Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time”...

Creating a Future: Nationalism, Patriotism and Global “Oneness”

"What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee."-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Sometimes, truth can be both counter-intuitive and bitterly ironic.  Although Americans have...

“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline

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

Defying the Herd: “Personhood,” War and the Triumph of Peace

Art, we may learn from Picasso, is "the lie that lets us see the truth." In this connection, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti's iconic sculpture, Man Pointing, appears...

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