Louis Rene Beres
Biographic Data
| ID | 328475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Rene Beres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis Rene |
| FAMILY NAME | Beres |
| SIGNATURE | BERES L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tilting Toward Thanatos
Israel's Strategic Doctrine
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouis René BeresDr. Louis René Beres is Professor of International Relations and International Law in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. The author of many books and hundreds of articles on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, he has been closely involved with Israeli security issues, including service as Chairman of Project Daniel, a senior private advisory …
Facing Iran's Ongoing Nuclearization
On Assassination, Preemption, and Counterterrorism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouis René BeresDr. Louis René Beres is Professor of International Relations and International Law at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. The author of several books and articles on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, he is closely involved with Israeli security issues, including service as Chairman of Project Daniel, a senior private advisory on nuclear matters to former Israeli Prime Minister Ar…
Israel’s Uncertain Strategic Future
Israel's Strategic Future: The Final Report of was completed in mid-January 2003, several months before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and transmitted by hand to then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The underlying rationale of Project was the presumption that Israel urgently needs a coherent plan for dealing with existential threats, and that we (The Group) were well-positioned intellectually and professionally to propose such a plan. The pro…
Israel and Samson
Although Israel's strategic posture of nuclear ambiguity has assuredly not led to any serious doubts about its overall nuclear capacity, there is no necessary correlation between such a capacity and enemy perceptions of usable nuclear power. Before Israel's nuclear arsenal can purposefully enhance that country's security, it will first have to contribute recognizably to Israeli nuclear deterrence and to Israel's perceived ability to undertake cer…
Israel and the Bomb
July 01 2004 Israel and the Bomb Louis René Beres, Louis René Beres Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Zeev Maoz Zeev Maoz Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Louis René Bere…
In support of anticipatory self‐defence Israel, Osiraq and international law
(1998). In support of anticipatory self‐defence Israel, Osiraq and international law. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 111-114
Israel, the “peace process,” and nuclear terrorism
Assessments of the Oslo accords on Israel's security normally focus on the risks of war and conventional terrorism. Yet there are compelling reasons to believe that the so‐called Peace Process might also enlarge the risk of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorism, including nuclear weapons. With this in mind, this article, cast in the form of a Memorandum to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, explores a number of pertinent variables a…
From Our Readers
Getting beyond nuclear deterrence
Preventing the ultimate nightmare
(1997). Preventing the ultimate nightmare: Nuclear terrorism against the United States. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 333-342
Limits of Nuclear Deterrence
Surrounded by still implacable enemies, some of which are rapidly developing chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons capabilities, Israel has now decided to base its very survival upon the unsteady foundations of nuclear deterrence. Although Jerusalem is taking ambitious steps to augment these fragile foundations with sophisticated active defenses (e.g., the "Arrow" ATBM), the Israeli deployment of antitactical ballistic missiles by the year 20…
The Iranian threat to Israel
Intelligence and nuclear terrorism
Israel's bomb in the basement
Assassination and the law
Normally, assassination is a crime under international law. Yet there are rare, residual circumstances where it may be not only permissible but law enforcing. Insofar as international law is part of United States law, assassination might—in these very extraordinary circumstances—not be unlawful. Drawing on the explicit expectations of international law and the natural law foundations of U.S. municipal law, this article acknowledges that assassina…
The meaning of terrorism for the military commander
Although terrorism has certainly become a problem of considerable urgency, its precise meaning remains markedly unclear. For the military commander, such ironic ambiguity may make it difficult to identify and carry out particular counterterrorism operations. This article suggests that greater attention must now be directed to conceptual clarification of terrorism and to associated rejection of geopolitical definitions. With such attention, milita…
Victims and executioners
Israel and its enemies
The Question of Palestine and Israel's Nuclear Strategy
America and South Africa
The Reagan policy of constructive engagement was not really mean to succeed; it was meant to make apartheid palatable. Convinced that the contest between the United States and the Soviet Union overrides all other considerations of international relations, the Reagan administration has always been prepared to tolerate apartheid as the “lesser evil,” and when apartheid is overthrown, this country may be in an active insurgency against the new regim…
The end of American foreign policy
(1986). The end of American foreign policy. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1253-1270
Israeli options
Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, by Herman Kahn
Journal Article Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, by Herman Kahn Get access Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s by Herman Kahn. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1984. 250 pp. $16.95. Louis René Beres Louis René Beres Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Summer 1985, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150662 Published: 15 Ju…
Examining the Logic of World Federal Government
Journal Article EXAMINING THE LOGIC OF WORLD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Get access Louis René Beres Louis René Beres Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 4, Issue 3, Summer 1974, Pages 75–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038325 Published: 01 January 1974
Tilting Toward Thanatos
America's current nuclear strategy seeks to improve deterrence with a counterforce targeting plan that exceeds the requirements of mutual assured destruction. This “countervailing” nuclear strategy codifies an enlarged spectrum of retaliatory options. The author argues, however, that the countervailing strategy is based upon a number of implausible and contradictory assumptions, and that it actually degrades the overriding objective of genuine se…
Apocalypse
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and the Reliability of Alliance Commitments
HE USE of alliances represents a time-honored means of protecting actors in world politics. At the same time, the history of international political theorizing is replete with skeptical utterances concerning the deterrent capacity of alliances. Most often, the crux of such skepticism lies in what is believed to be the demonstrated unreliability of actors faithfully to honor their alliance commitments once the inducement of expected benefits has b…
Israel and the Bomb
July 01 2004 Israel and the Bomb Louis René Beres, Louis René Beres Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Zeev Maoz Zeev Maoz Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Louis René Bere…
In support of anticipatory self‐defence Israel, Osiraq and international law
(1998). In support of anticipatory self‐defence Israel, Osiraq and international law. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 111-114
Assassination and the law
Normally, assassination is a crime under international law. Yet there are rare, residual circumstances where it may be not only permissible but law enforcing. Insofar as international law is part of United States law, assassination might—in these very extraordinary circumstances—not be unlawful. Drawing on the explicit expectations of international law and the natural law foundations of U.S. municipal law, this article acknowledges that assassina…
"Understanding "Destarilization
The U.S. policy of trying to destabilize the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua violates accepted principles of international law. Based on the long-standing principles of "humanitarian intervention" of the Nuremberg Judgment and Article 7 o f the U.N. General Assembly's 1974 Definition of Aggression and American traditional acceptance of the principles of natural law, the Nicaraguan intervention in El Salvador may be interpreted as law enforcement. …
Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Polarity
IT IS commonplace for international relations scholars to characterize world politics in terms of the prevailing pattern of global power. This pattern typically determines the particular configuration of conflict axes (structure) in the world system. While the most prominent characterizations have centered about the bipolar-multipolar debate,1 a variety of more complex conceptualizations has been developed in recent years. Stemming from a growing…
Managing Power in a Changing World System
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and the Reliability of Alliance Commitments
HE USE of alliances represents a time-honored means of protecting actors in world politics. At the same time, the history of international political theorizing is replete with skeptical utterances concerning the deterrent capacity of alliances. Most often, the crux of such skepticism lies in what is believed to be the demonstrated unreliability of actors faithfully to honor their alliance commitments once the inducement of expected benefits has b…
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and the Tragedy of the Commons
NOTE: This paper will examine the implications of structure for undercutting the so-called of the in world politics. This refers to the difficulty of securing general compliance with central injunctions against international force so long as the actors in world politics are uncertain about the reciprocal behavior of other actors. As it is defined in terms of collective security, the tragedy of the commons is a basic obstruction to a peaceful worl…
Bipolarity, Multipolarity, and the Tragedy of the Commons
On studying world order
On the study of legal order in future world systems
New Prologues for Global Drama
Examining the Logic of World Federal Government
Journal Article EXAMINING THE LOGIC OF WORLD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Get access Louis René Beres Louis René Beres Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 4, Issue 3, Summer 1974, Pages 75–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038325 Published: 01 January 1974
Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Polarity
IT IS commonplace for international relations scholars to characterize world politics in terms of the prevailing pattern of global power. This pattern typically determines the particular configuration of conflict axes (structure) in the world system. While the most prominent characterizations have centered about the bipolar-multipolar debate,1 a variety of more complex conceptualizations has been developed in recent years. Stemming from a growing…
International Legal Policy Studies
Perspectives on World Order
This essay seeks to clarify the boundaries and characterize the content of world-order studies with a view to bringing some much-needed conceptual, analytical, and historical clarity and order to the subject. The authors trace the evolution of all the three major perspectives on world order, lay bare the basic premises and summarize the main conclusions of each, and round off with a critique
World Order Orientations To International Law
WORLD order perspective on human affairs derives from a compelling awareness of planetary danger in the years ahead. War, population pressure, food and energy shortages, environmental spoilage these and a host of other problems threaten the quality and continuity of life on Earth. In response to these conditions, a growing number of writers on international law are adopting a world order approach by directing their attention to appropriate strate…
World Order Orientations to International Law
Planning Alternative World Futures
Terrorism and global security
Presidential Directive 59
Tilting Toward Thanatos
America's current nuclear strategy seeks to improve deterrence with a counterforce targeting plan that exceeds the requirements of mutual assured destruction. This “countervailing” nuclear strategy codifies an enlarged spectrum of retaliatory options. The author argues, however, that the countervailing strategy is based upon a number of implausible and contradictory assumptions, and that it actually degrades the overriding objective of genuine se…
Apocalypse
Nuclear Strategy and World Order
This paper argues that current US nuclear strategy goes beyond the legitimate objective of survivable strategic forces to active preparation for nuclear war fighting. The proponents of this counterforce strategy claim it is necessary to make US deterrence more credible. The author rejects this claim and shows how US strategy actually degrades US security. Moreover, the author contends that it actually encourages nuclear war because it is based on…
Victory Is Not Possible
The current strategic planning for nuclear war is based on the assumptions that it is an effective way to deter the Soviet Union and that we can actually survive such a war. These are erroneous, for the Soviets are not likely to be any more deterred by our plans for nuclear war than they are by our current strategy. The illusion that “victory” is possible in a nuclear war overlooks the medical and other evidence about the extent of death, injury …
Subways to armageddon
Endgame
This is a promising time in our national political life. Although we already stand very close to the edge of an apocalyptic abyss, there now exists widespread understanding of our predicament. Avoiding nuclear war, until recently only a marginal tic of consciousness, is now a gigantic, irreversible gesture. Today, as growing legions of Americans reject the gibberish of a self-defeating nuclear strategy, there is hope that we might yet survive as …
Louis René Beres — vain hopes and a fool's fancy
"Understanding "Destarilization
The U.S. policy of trying to destabilize the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua violates accepted principles of international law. Based on the long-standing principles of "humanitarian intervention" of the Nuremberg Judgment and Article 7 o f the U.N. General Assembly's 1974 Definition of Aggression and American traditional acceptance of the principles of natural law, the Nicaraguan intervention in El Salvador may be interpreted as law enforcement. …
Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, by Herman Kahn
Journal Article Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, by Herman Kahn Get access Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s by Herman Kahn. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1984. 250 pp. $16.95. Louis René Beres Louis René Beres Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Summer 1985, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150662 Published: 15 Ju…
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