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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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Resurrecting Trump: Reason and anti-reason in American politics

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Even today, even after so much accumulated evidence of Donald J. Trump’s incapacity and malfeasance, millions of Americans regard his presidency as exemplary. This cannot be explained in terms of any inherent liabilities of...
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)

Building Global Civilization: Humankind’s Core Obligation

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“Everyone knows that the world situation in which we live is not a final one.” Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) For the most part, human beings regard any global or planetary civilization as a naïve...
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When International Legal Obligations Are Contradictory: America’s Dilemma in Ukraine

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Ongoing Russian crimes against Ukraine are egregious and overlapping. Most conspicuous of these crimes are Vladimir Putin’s acts of aggression and of genocide. Jurisprudentially, even if Putin lacks any confirmable “intent to destroy” specific Ukrainian populations, Russia’s law-breaking behavior...
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Photographer RM/Shutterstock.

US legal obligation: Balancing risks of nuclear war, genocide

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Vladimir Putin’s most flagrant crime against Ukraine is aggression. Certain coinciding and overlapping acts of Russian criminality, however, also evidence genocide. Even if Russian military doctrine lacks an intent to destroy specific Ukrainian populations...

America and the World: A Vital Connection

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The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself’ is false and against nature.”-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man Human “oneness” represents...
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Time in Israel’s National Security

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Despite Israel’s conspicuous successes on the technological side of national security, there is little evidence of any meaningful philosophical underpinnings. For the most part, the small country’s defense policies and infrastructures, though impressively complex,...

Israel, Counter-Terrorism and International Law: Challenges of Systemic Analysis

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“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.”-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959) Whether conspicuous or obscure, terrorism presents itself as a systemic challenge. This means, inter alia,...

Viva la Muerte!: Gun Violence And America’s Culture Of Death

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It’s grimly ironic. Though analyzed endlessly, America’s epidemic mass shootings remain difficult to explain. To be sure, the heinous killings are the work of starkly disturbed individuals. But this fact is true by definition. Ipso...
Iran's new medium range missile, Shehab-3, is shown in public for the first time at a military parade inTehran September 25. The Shehab-3, whose 1,300-km (800-mile) range covers Israel, Saudi Arabia, and parts of Russia and Turkey, was described by U.S. President Bill Clinton as a weapon which could change the "stability dynamics" of the Middle East. Iranian armed forces held a parade as a part of the "Holy Defence Week" at 18th anniversary of the beginning of the 8 year-long war with Iraq.

Could Israel Safely Deter a Nuclear Iran?

By Louis René Beres and John T. Chain Iran's new medium range missile, Shehab-3, is shown in public for the first time at a military parade in Tehran last September. (Reuters) Whatever their current disagreements on the reasonableness of...
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Putin’s Nuremberg-Level Crimes: A Deeper Look Behind the News

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n world politics and international law, meaningful explanation must always begin with the solitary human being, with the microcosm. This generalized individual, regardless of nationality, seeks to maximize one form of power above all others.  In...