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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Still Calculable Connections: Israeli Nuclear Deterrence and War with Iran

“The worst does sometimes happen.”-Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss Playwright The author, Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres, has been lecturing and publishing for more than fifty years...

Nuclear War and Anti-Reason

 “The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in...

A Second Trump Presidency? Expect a Three-Pronged Assault on Law, Justice and National Security

“I hold despicable, and always have…anyone who puts his own popularity before his country.” -Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes It’s high time...

Safeguarding America’s Nuclear Command Authority: Security Obligations in an Absurd World Order

Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian It should be inconceivable. A previous American president, law-breaking and manipulative in his every significant policy...

“Wanting To Know Nothing of Truth”: The Origins of Trump-Inflicted Harms

"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth." -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time...

Israel And Hamas: A Legal Assessment of the Gaza War

“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the right to punish it…. This right to resist injustice is derived...

Beyond Current Chaos: The Escalating Risks of Nuclear War

Abstract: Though generally acclaimed, the recent film Oppenheimer did little to highlight any long-term implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare. This is not...

Life Against Death: True Meanings of World Politics

In the final analysis, world politics is not about geostrategic competition, military weapons or relative power. Appearances notwithstanding, such politics more deeply represent the...

Science, Philosophy and Truth: Are We Prepared For “Covid II”?

"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth."-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) The...

A Planetary Survival Challenge to Identify Alternative World Futures

Abstract: This article calls for applying human ingenuity to our planet’s core existential problems: nuclear war; injustice; economic inequality and ecological catastrophe. This means,...

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