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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.

 

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Looking Behind The “Unspeakable Lies”: Russia’s Criminal War Against Ukraine

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“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...
An image from the “Knights of Al Aqsa” video game, in which players become Palestinian terrorists on a mission to kill Israelis. Image: Screenshot.

Israel Against Terrorism: The Primacy of Intellectual Struggle

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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”

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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

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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

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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...
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Matters of “Belief”: Aggression, Genocide and Genocide-Like Crimes

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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

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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

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“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

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“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

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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...