Louis René Beres
Presidential Irrationality and Wrongdoing in US Nuclear Command Authority
Abstract: In post-World War II memory, no greater political danger has confronted the United States than the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Endowed with nuclear command authority, this unstable and openly law-violating American leader...
Can Israeli Nuclear Threats Protect Against Non-Nuclear Attacks?
Abstract: It is widely assumed that a state’s nuclear weapons and strategy are irrelevant to non-nuclear threats. A contrary argument is advanced by Louis René Beres with particular reference to the State of Israel. Urging...
Looking Beyond The News: Afghanistan As Metaphor
“God loves from Whole to Part,” proclaims Alexander Pope, “but human soul must rise from Individual to the Whole.” In the end, any viable system of world politics must acknowledge the determinative connections between...
The Infinite Insignificance of Donald J. Trump
Life can only be understood backwards: but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard
For good reason, millions of Americans remain wary of any Trump return to presidential politics. Nonetheless, though his time in office was...
Looking Back at the Trump Presidency: An Informed Retrospective
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too often, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.”-Alexander Pope, Essay on...
United States- Iran Nuclear Crises: Portents for Israel
ABSTRACT: In response to former US President Donald J. Trump’s unilateral American withdrawal from the July 2015 Iran Pact (JCPOA), the Islamic Republic of Iran accelerated and reinvigorated its military nuclear program. More recently, nuclear talks...
Preventing Nuclear War: Legal Obligations for an Imperiled Planet
“Scholars build the structure of peace in the world.”
Babylonian Talmud; Order Zera’im, Tractate Berakoth, IX
Background of the Problem
Back in the late 1960s, at Yale Law School and Princeton University’s Department of Politics, a series...
Nuclear War Avoidance: A Fourth Pillar Of Future Human Well-Being
“In the end, we must depend upon creatures of our own making.”
Goethe, Faust
On July 12, 2021, Horasis Chairman Frank Jurgen-Richter posted an important new essay titled “The Three Necessary Pillars of Future Human Well-Being.”...
Still Asking the Wrong Questions: A Perilous American Error
“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 (1952)
How did America get to this fragile place?
Often, history deserves pride of place....
Transcending Global Realpolitik: President Joe Biden’s Overriding Foreign Policy Challenge
Abstract: Regarding American foreign policy, US President Joseph Biden has now correctly embarked upon a plan to reverse derelictions of his White House predecessor. As many Trump-inflicted harms were grievous and potentially catastrophic, this plan...