Louis René Beres
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...
A Summit of Consequence? Great Power Diplomacy and Inadvertent Nuclear War
“In a surrealist year…. some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his prayers on the 19th green.”-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the...
Risks of a Nuclear War With North Korea: The Obligation of Intellect-Based Remedies
“Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?”-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Intellect and National Security
In the end, nothing could be gained by approaching the North Korean nuclear threat with Trump-era seat-of-the-pants...
Living with Iran: Israel’s Strategic Imperative
This article was originally published on May 28, 2014
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In response to the almost inevitable Iranian nuclear bomb, Israel must suitably integrate a clear nuclear deterrence posture with multi-layered active defenses. This complex effort...
Politics, Law and the Triumph of Chaos
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….”
-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Plus, ca’ change. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” In world politics, anarchy is an...