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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.

 

The Gaza War and International Law: An Informed Assessment

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In its obligatory war against Palestinian terror – a criminal process encouraged and sustained by Iran – Israel is acting within the bounds of pertinent international law. Though this assessment is difficult to...

Countering Hamas Terrorism: Israel, Iran and the “Samson Option”

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  Abstract: As Israel expands its law-enforcing offensive against Gaza-based Hamas, core attention should remain directed toward terrorist patron state Iran. With such attention, Israel will need to draw upon a comprehensive strategy that is...

Israel, Terrorism And Immortality: Hamas Attractions To “Power Over Death”

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“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.” Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) Effective counter-terrorism is never just about strategy and tactics. For Israel, still at the start of Operation Swords of Iron, dealing...
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Hamas Terror Attacks and International Law

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Amid ongoing terror violence in Israel, the author — an expert in international law and regular JURIST contributor — argues that it is the responsibility of the United States and other world powers to...

Beyond Belligerent Nationalism

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Special to Jewish Website 7 September 2023 Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu “The dust from which the first man was created was gathered in all four corners of the earth.” Talmud Despite persistent...
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Israel, Counter-Terrorism, and International Law: The Analytic Challenges of ‘System’

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“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959) Whether conspicuous or obscure, terrorism generally presents itself as a systemic challenge. This means, inter...
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Sovereignty and Survival

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Special to Jewish Website Abstract: Core issues surrounding Iran's nuclear weapons program have generally been strategic or political rather than legal. Nonetheless, if Israel should sometime decide that it no longer has any reasonable alternative...
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Foundations of Nuclear War Avoidance: An Intellectual and Legal Challenge

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“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” —Guillaume Apollinaire, “The New Spirit and the Poets” (1917) Nuclear weapons...

A New Film’s Hidden Message: “Oppenheimer,” Escalation Dominance and Inadvertent Nuclear War

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Introduction: The new film about Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer raises counter-intuitive questions about nuclear weapons as instruments of peace. Despite serious misgivings about the bomb he had created (“I am become death, the destroyer...
From the film Dr. Strangelove, 1964

Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again

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In 1962, Herman Kahn riveted the US defense community with a book titled Thinking About the Unthinkable. Far ahead of its time, the American physicist’s seminal work displayed a rare combination of conceptual imagination, intellectual capacity...