Louis René Beres
Looking Behind The “Unspeakable Lies”: Russia’s Criminal War Against Ukraine
“Happy are those who know that behind all speeches are still the unspeakable lies….”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Possibility of Being
Russian fabrications about Ukraine are sweeping and “unspeakable.” Still, the twentieth-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke can...
Israel Against Terrorism: The Primacy of Intellectual Struggle
Facing new cycles of terror attacks, Israel must prepare to look far beyond traditional forms of counter-terrorism strategy. Rather than remain preoccupied with high-technology weapons and forces, the nation’s military and political communities need...
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 undermined once residual hopes for superpower reconciliation or “détente.” In essence, whatever...
Israel, Counter-Terrorism and the Perils of Policy Projection
From the beginning, Israel has fashioned its counter-terrorism policies as a military matter of strategy and tactics. Today, little has meaningfully changed in this orientation, and a disproportionate measure of attention and investment remains...
Understanding the election in context
Again and again, Americans seek “progress” in politics — in vain. As we ought to have learned by now, elections can never save us; more precisely, no president or congress can halt the corrosive withering that so...
Matters of “Belief”: Aggression, Genocide and Genocide-Like Crimes
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 murder represents just a tangible reflection of underlying human emotions. In...
A Post-Holocaust Betrayal: Israel’s Defiling Obeisance to Donald J. Trump
Louis René Beres, Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue University, considers lessons Israel learned during the Trump presidency, and argues that going forward, Israeli leaders ought never again to calculate that the law-violating...
Ukraine as a ‘Final Epidemic’ Amid Increasingly Plausible Risks of a Nuclear War
“Defenseless under the night, our world in stupor lies….” — W H Auden
Background of the Current Nuclear War Threat
Since August 6, 1945, the “official” start of the Nuclear Age, humankind has been acquainting itself...
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 (1971)
For the most part, Americans loath mind-challenging excursions into philosophy. At times,...
Prioritizing Russian Crimes In Ukraine: Aggression Versus Human Rights
International law requires all states in world politics to oppose crimes of aggression and crimes against human rights. Among other things, these coinciding requirements are “peremptory,” meaning that authoritative expectations of world community action...