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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“…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...

Putin’s Crimes Against Peace in Ukraine: “Friction”-Based Risks of Nuclear Conflict

Abstract: Until the end of 2022, Vladimir Putin issued a series of explicit nuclear threats against the United States. Such threats,  once easily dismissed...

Reason And Anti-Reason In Moscow: Psychiatric Determinants Of “Cold War II”

Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has obviously critical implications for United States foreign policy. Among other things, this expanding Russian “crime against peace” has...

“I Believe”: Unseen Intersections of Belligerent Nationalism, Mass Murder and “Metaphysical Fear” in Ukraine

Matters of “Belief”: Aggression, Genocide and Genocide-Like Crimes Ukraine is only the latest manifestation of an age-old connection.  More precisely, this Russian-generated spasm of mass...

An “Unphilosophical Spirit”: Root Causes of American Intellectual Decline

"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...

Shaping Tenable Policy on North Korea: A U.S. Security Imperative

"What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another, of seeking justification always on the same plane?"-Samuel Beckett, Endgame The Adversarial Chessboard In...

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