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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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Message to UN and Europe: Palestinian Terrorism Always Violates International Law

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There can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this pre-eminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policymakers. The principal result is that...

Israel, counter-terrorism and the future of immortality

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In the final analysis, there can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this preeminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policy-makers. The...
Kim and Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA Singapore Summit by Shealah Craighead. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Influencing North Korea’s nuclear calculations: Trump’s obligation to think strategically

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It should now be obvious that the North Korean ruler has no intention of giving up his country’s growing nuclear weapons program. To insistently demand “complete denuclearization” from Kim Jung Un represents a foolish...
Protest calling for Sharia in Maldives

The US “Defeat” of ISIS: An Improbable Victory

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Rabbi Eleazar quoted Rabbi Hanina, who said: "Scholars build the structure of peace in the world." (The Babylonian Talmud, Order Zera'im, Tractate Berakoth, IX) On several occasions, US President Donald Trump has proudly announced the "defeat"...
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Trump’s Defense of Saudi Arabia After Khashoggi Murder Violates Law and Justice

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It’s not just about the 2012 Magnitsky Act. President Donald Trump’s recent affirmation of support for Saudi Arabia–even with incontrovertible evidence of Saudi criminality in the Jamal Khashoggi murder–reflects willful indifference to much wider sources of pertinent...
Adam Smith statue in Edinburgh's High Street with St. Giles High Kirk behind. by Kim Traynor

Adam Smith, Trump-style economic policy, and Black Friday side-eye

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Black Friday is a good time to recall certain "classical" observations about economics and society. We ought to recall Adam Smith, both his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and his much better-known Inquiry into the Nature and Causes...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Donald Trump’s Accelerating War on Truth and Justice

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For US President Donald Trump, policymaking by imposed chaos and deliberate incoherence has become the new normal. Again and again, we learn that this president’s seat-of-the-pants decisions are founded on contrivance; inevitably, these decisions...

Nuclear decision-making and nuclear war: an urgent American problem

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Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” His classic warning remains starkly relevant to the United States, nowhere more so than in the context of nuclear war....

Undermining National and International Law: The Expected Costs of Nuclear Treaty Termination

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This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be...
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on the Iran Strategy in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Friday, October 13, 2017. In Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)

When Realism is Unrealistic: Trump’s Foreign Policy as Impediment to US and Allied Security

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"You, created only a little lower than The angels, have crouched too long in The bruising darkness Have lain too long Face down in ignorance. Your mouths spilling words Armed for slaughter." Maya Angelou, recited at US President Bill Clinton's inauguration,...