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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.

 

Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics

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“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time” (1952) Nowadays, in the midst of near-perpetual scandal, both...

Seizing chaos as opportunity making lemonade from “lemons” in the Middle East

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If Israeli planners like it or not, regional chaos is increasingly plausible in the Middle East. Whether this chaos should stem from the proliferation of nuclear weapons among Israel’s enemies, or “merely” from the...

Israel and the Abyss: Chaos as Source of National Security

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"I tell you, ye have still chaos in you." (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Normally, chaos is presumed to be a "bad" thing, especially in world politics. From the standpoint of classical international relations theory, one thinks...

Looking ahead: Longer term prospects for an Israel-Iran nuclear war

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ABSTRACT: With Prime Minister Netanyahu just reaffirming that Israel will strike both Iranian and Syrian targets as needed - most recently, after an Iranian drone briefly entered Israeli airspace, and an IAF F-161 plane...
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Altogether Bewildering Challenges

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"Professor Louis René Beres - Ph.D., Princeton, 1971 - was Chair of Project Daniel in Israel - for Prime Minister Sharon." "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds." Bhagavad Gita, cited by American nuclear physicist...

Implications of a Palestinian State for Israeli Security and Nuclear War: A Jurisprudential Assessment

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Normally, students of international law approach the question of a Palestinian State from the standpoints of terrorism, self-determination and human rights. Although such an approach is altogether reasonable, it is also purposeful to examine...