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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Israel, Syria and Jihadi Terror

On May 13, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will cease sanctions against Syria “to give them a chance at greatness.” As...

Renouncing Truth: The Inglorious Challenge of Anti-Reason in America

“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.” - Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our...

Perilous Escalations: “Trump II” Impacts on Planetary Survival

As Americans struggle to endure “Trump II,” all nation-states should think beyond traditional foreign policies of “everyone for himself.” In  essence, this universal obligation...

Assessing the Risks of Unintentional Nuclear War: An American Imperative

“Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered...

Strategizing Amid Chaos: Madness And Irrationality in World Politics

 "We are mad, not only individuals, but nations also. We restrain manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the so-called glory of...

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Global Justice: Mutually Lawless Policies on Ukraine

“President Trump was the first and so far, I think, almost the only one among the Western leaders who repeatedly, with conviction, several times...

Condemning Putin’s Crimes Against Ukraine Is an Obligation of American and International Law

By refusing to condemn Vladimir Putin’s egregious crimes against Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump is undermining core expectations of both American law and international...

The North Korean Nuclear Problem During “Trump II”: More Refractory Than Ever

Abstract: Though seemingly on the “back burner,” worrisome nuclear developments in North Korea are steadily increasing.  Inter alia, by ignoring diplomatic warnings and legal...

The “Final Mercy” of “Magicians”: America, Donald Trump and Nuclear War

"The masses have followed the magicians again and again...Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in clear awareness...

Geometries of Chaos: America’s Future in World Politics

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” -T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (1939) Normally, geometry and...

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