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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, 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...
Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

Analyzing Vladimir Putin: Is Joe Biden Dealing With A “Normal” Adversary?

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Assessing an adversarial head of state is not usually a psychiatric task. For the most part, such high-value strategic appraisals need not be directed by any deliberate search for “abnormality.” Among other things, this...
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Fragmentation, Aggression, Genocide: Deeper Meanings of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

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“But tell me, my brothers, if humanity still lacks a goal, is humanity itself not still lacking? Thus inquired Zarathustra.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra It’s hard to imagine anything decent emerging from Vladimir Putin’s genocidal aggression against Ukraine, but...
Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

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Nullum crimen sine poena, “No crime without a punishment” Though US President Joseph Biden was initially criticized for interfering in Russia’s “sovereign jurisdiction,” no allegation of “intervention” could have been more sorely mistaken. In this matter, the Nuremberg Principles are...
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Why President Biden’s Call for Putin’s Removal Should Not Be “Walked Back”

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“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” – US President Joe Biden, March 26, 2022 Though rarely recognized, international law is part of the law of the United States. It follows, among other things, that...

Why Joe Biden’s Call For Vladimir Putin‘s Removal Was Law-Enforcing

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Let’s begin at the beginning. International law is part of the law of the United States. It follows, among other things, that if the American president’s recent call for Vladimir Putin’s departure was consistent...
Photo: North Korea’s ballistic missile – North Korea Victory Day-2013 =  Stefan Krasowski via Wikimedia Commons

Warding Off Calamitous “Silence” Risks of A U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War

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“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” Albert Camus, The Plague An accelerating nuclear threat By August 2021, it was clear that nuclear-armed North Korea...