Louis René Beres
ARTICLES BY: Louis René Beres
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With America’s Nuclear Weapons?
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” (Albert Einstein, May 1946) Albert Einstein,...
Donald Trump: It Can Happen Here
Times are changing. In 1960, when I was still in high school, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. Immediately and intelligently,...
How Saving Israel from Terrorism Could Save the World
For Islamist and jihadist fighters around the world -- ISIS, Hamas, it generally makes little actual difference -- terrorism represents a sacred form of religious...
Radical Islam: Terrorism as Power Over Death
Opposing terrorism, especially jihadist terror, has become a continuous security obligation for the US, Europe, and of course Israel. Still, too little serious analytic attention...
Iranian Nuclear Weapons and ‘Palestine’: Dangers for Israel
For keen observers of world politics, a key concept must be “synergy.” Here, where the “whole” of certain global intersections could sometime be greater than...
Message to UN and Europe: Palestinian Terrorism Always Violates International Law
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...
Trump’s Defense of Saudi Arabia After the Khashoggi Murder Violates Law and Justice
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...
Israel Must Reevaluate Its Policy of Nuclear Ambiguity
Given the upheavals cascading throughout the Middle East since 2011, Israel now faces a unique dilemma, as this ever-volatile region could slip irretrievably into a...
Donald Trump’s Accelerating War on Truth and Justice
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...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated shabbily and without proper regard for due process. Still, this ought...
‘America First’ Undermines American Ideals — and Our Humanity
While stunningly counter-intuitive, the critical gap between technical intelligence and human empathy is more insidious than ever before. In response, one fundamental question should spring...
The Seductive Appeal of Jihadist Terror in Israel — and Around the World
While the professional literature on terrorism and counter-terrorism devotes considerable attention to martyrdom and jihad, not much has pertained to critically underlying promises of immortality....
Why ‘America First’ Will Never Protect America
In the 17th century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously warned against growing conditions of anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating...
The Deteriorating Trump Presidency: The Risk of Nuclear War
At a moment when the Trump presidency is plainly in steep decline, the ultimate hazard remains a nuclear incident. In essence, there are now various...
