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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.

 

“…Like A Field Of Ripe Corn” -The Origins Of American “Mass”

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“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.” -T S Eliot For the most part, what Americans receive as their daily news is reflection. Any more penetrating thought concerning such...
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When Aggression and Genocide Combine: Putin’s ‘Hiterlite’ War Against Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin’s multiple crimes against Ukraine include aggression and genocide. But what happens when these two categories of criminality come together? Among other things, this result is not “merely” additive; it is also synergistic. Hence, the...

How and why international law and strategy should be merged when engaging Middle Eastern...

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ISRAEL, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: ANALYTIC CHALLENGES OF SYSTEM “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...

If and when to strike first – A guest essay on Israeli preemption

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IF AND WHEN TO STRIKE FIRST ISRAEL, PREEMPTION AND ANTICIPATORY SELF-DEFENSE Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University Abstract: “The safety of the people,” declares Cicero in The Laws, “is the highest law.”...

Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma

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“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII A Hobbesian World The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics with the “state of nature.” In this anarchic state, war is...
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King Charles III’s Coronation at the Convergence of Policy, Sovereignty, and Immortality

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It’s an uncommon association, but certain connections have been suggested between sovereignty (the highest form of earthly authority) and offerings of immortality. For the most part, at the level of philosophical investigation, such connections have not...

Excruciating But Indispensable: Calculating Probabilities of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War

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Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian By definition, an Israel-Iran nuclear exchange is presently impossible. Though Iran is vigorously pursuing a military nuclear capability, it still has a substantial way to go before it can...

Figuring the Odds of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War: A Complex Task for Logic, Mathematics...

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“For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.” Proverbs, 24,6 As a matter of logic, an Israel-Iran nuclear exchange is presently out of the question. Though energetically pursuing a military nuclear capability, the Shiite Republic...
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Concepts of Time in Israel’s Defense Policy

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“Clocks slay time.”-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Some facts speak for themselves. For Israel, no arena of national decision-making is conceivably more important than defense and security. Nonetheless, this primary arena is still dominated...

Resisting “Mass”: Intellect, Courage and Human Survival

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Perpetually self-destructive, humankind continues to embrace war, genocide, and terrorism almost routinely. Plausibly, this lethal embrace is today even more worrisome than in the past. What are the pertinent particulars? To begin, the lead engines...