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

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

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

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Empathy, Survival and Human Oneness: Informed Reflections on Trump’s Atavistic Worldview

"Each of us is both the subject and the protagonist of his own nontransferable life." JosĂ© Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis America First,  the most conspicuous...

In a Dark Time: The Expected Consequences of an India-Pakistan Nuclear War

Twenty-one years ago, in 1998, Dr. Louis René Beres, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue University, published an authoritative article in the AMERICAN...

U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War: Assessing Plausible Risks

"Military strategy, whether we like it or not, has become the diplomacy of violence."-Thomas C. Schelling, Arms and  Influence (1966) US President Donald Trump says he doesn't know...

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