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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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,...

A New Film’s Hidden Message: “Oppenheimer,” Escalation Dominance and Inadvertent Nuclear War

Introduction: The new film about Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer raises counter-intuitive questions about nuclear weapons as instruments of peace. Despite serious misgivings...

Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again

In 1962, Herman Kahn riveted the US defense community with a book titled Thinking About the Unthinkable. Far ahead of its time, the American...

“…Like A Field Of Ripe Corn” -The Origins Of American “Mass”

“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.” -T S Eliot For the most part, what...

Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma

“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII A Hobbesian World The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics...

Excruciating But Indispensable: Calculating Probabilities of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War

Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian By definition, an Israel-Iran nuclear exchange is presently impossible. Though Iran is vigorously pursuing a military...

Concepts of Time in Israel’s Defense Policy

“Clocks slay time.”-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Some facts speak for themselves. For Israel, no arena of national decision-making is conceivably more important...

If Trump Returns as President: An Existential Threat to the United States

Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd”-Tertullian There are many reasons to fear Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, but one...

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