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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres
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Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with various legal and military aspects of  nuclear strategy. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over the past years, he has published extensively on nuclear warfare issues in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online (Yale University); JURIST; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; The Washington Times; US News & World Report; Special Warfare (Pentagon); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); The New York Times; The Hill; The Jerusalem Post; and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book,  published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy.

 

Israel’s Legal Rights to Self-Protect and to Punish Terrorists

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By the fundamental principle known formally under international law as a jus cogens (“compelling law”) rule, each state is required to assist other states imperiled by terror-violence. The most important historical figures in creating and explaining...

Donald Trump’s peace for Ukraine is a warning for Israel

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Though US President Donald Trump likely has greater concern for Israel than Ukraine, his de facto peace for both nations is transactional. In predictable obeisance to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the American president now...

Trump’s risky nuclear policy: ‘Tepid legality’ is preferable to ‘maximum lethality’

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Under the tutelage of Donald Trump, the United States faces growing risks of a nuclear war. These risks could be manifested incrementally or all at once. They concern both intentional and unintentional conflicts. World peace requires...

Trump, Nuclear Intuition, and the Looming Risk of Global Catastrophe

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“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed…”  - William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming The connection is easy to recognize. With his seat-of-the-pants policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, Donald Trump is heightening prospects of a...

Trump, Nuclear Intuition, and the Looming Risk of Global Catastrophe

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“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed…”  - William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming The connection is easy to recognize. With his seat-of-the-pants policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, Donald Trump is heightening prospects of a...

“The Temple of Intellect”: Higher Meanings for American Universities

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  “The university is the temple of intellect, and I am its high priest.” Miguel de Unamuno Politics does not take place in a vacuum. Always, it is reflective or epiphenomenal. Among the multiple sources of...

Trump’s plan: Deja vu all over again

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“It’s like déjà vu all over again.” - Yogi Berra. New York Yankee philosopher Yogi Berra, the creator of the tautology quoted above, would have understood. Long after Israel’s grievously failed Oslo agreements with Palestinian...

God, Death And Time

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“`I believe’ is the one great word against metaphysical fear.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1918)           Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal will not help Israel. Plausibly, in short order, it will emerge as a net-negative....

“Palestine” and international law

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Though 157 UN member states have now recognized a "State of Palestine,” their actions do not confer legal sovereignty. Under international law, statehood is “independent of recognition by the other states.” Juridical statehood is based...

Always Preparing for a “Next War”: The Infinite Lethality of World Politics

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“Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatred, the destruction?” Aeschylus, Agamemnon In world politics, nothing fundamental really “ends.” Though specific events, personalities and weapon technologies do...