Louis René Beres
Repairing the World at its Source
In the Introduction to his eccentric but still magisterial The Decline of the West (1918), Oswald Spengler acknowledges the inspirational “philosophy of Goethe.” More precisely, he thanks this most seminal of classical thinkers for what today...
Impeaching the President: Identifying Deeper Jurisprudential Foundations for Lawful Removal
"Reluctantly, I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to U.S. national security."
General (USA/ret.) Barry R. McCaffrey, March 18, 2018
"The safety of the People Shall be the highest law."
Cicero, The Laws
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Twin perils for Israel: Iranian nuclear weapons and “Palestine”
"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, Discourse on Method
Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood are likely progressing at roughly the same pace. To be sure, this coincident...
Trump and Putin: What’s Really Going On?
"I like chaos." — United States President Donald Trump, March 4, 2018
Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." In the very best case scenario, President Donald Trump is "merely" incompetent, fundamentally incapable of meeting...
Looking Beyond Power Politics: A Longer Term Israeli & Global Imperative
For many years, I have been lecturing and publishing widely about Israel's nuclear strategy. By definition, of course, much of this work has been irremediably speculative; hence, it's derivative policy prescriptions have had to...
Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics
“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
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
"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
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...
Altogether Bewildering Challenges
"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...