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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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Presidential Crimes and Pardons: Donald J. Trump and America’s “Higher Law”

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“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” – Cicero, On the Laws Abstract: From the beginning of his sordid presidency, Donald J. Trump has shown willful indifference to the security and justice of the...
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After The Trump Horror Will America’s Next President Be “Normal?”

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After enduring four years of a soiled and dissembling presidency, US voters are entitled to raise a once inconceivable question. Before voting in the 2024 presidential election, they should inquire with appropriate seriousness: “Are these...
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AMERICAS“Living On Mountains”: Antecedents of a Dignified and Secure World Order

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“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra During the dissembling Trump Era, perhaps more than ever before, Americans have had...
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Getting Beyond Power Politics: Narratives For A Human-Centered World Order

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“You are a citizen of the universe.” Epictetus —————— In the final analysis, humankind can survive on this imperiled planet only by embracing visionary ways of thinking. Among these indispensable ways, an overriding “design theme” must concern...

Looking Back: Donald Trump, Israel and the Costs of Complicity

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming From the start of his sordid presidency, Donald J. Trump has presented himself as a “friend of Israel.” Surprisingly,...

Caligula Goes Covid: Nuclear Perils of Trump’s Last Days

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“The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows.”-Albert Camus, Caligula It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons, a conspicuously deranged American president may be willing to do anything...
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Soaring Above Politics: Death, Time and Immortality

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“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.” Emmanuel Levinas, Being-Toward Death as the Origin of Time (1976) Nowadays, at least as metaphor, it’s easy to confuse the symptoms with disease. Though we are all more-or-less...
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Exiting Donald Trump’s “Heart Of Darkness”: What Have We Learned?

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“It ain’t over till it’s over,” we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra. Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls and is on his way out, this defiling president...
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After the American Election: Overcoming Plague, Chaos and “Mass”

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“The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” – Jose Ortega y’Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture...
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Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future

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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”-T S Eliot, The Waste Land Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in the Middle East and Africa has always been a net-negative for...