Louis René Beres
ARTICLES BY: Louis René Beres
Saving America: Donald Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Illness
Despite endless reassurances to the contrary, America’s core problems can never be fixed by ritualized political activity or elections. In essence, no American government --...
After the Mueller Report
Donald Trump remains oddly deferential to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the growing animosity between Washington and Moscow. Both international and US law unequivocally require...
Alliances With Dictators Won’t Benefit Israel
The world’s leading states have long believed in certain alleged benefits of realpolitik, or power politics. Although such traditional patterns of thinking would normally appear...
When an American President Undermines National Security
From his first day on the job, President Donald Trump has created impediments to American security. His disjointed policies have brought the United States unprecedented...
Does Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Undermine US Security?
The core problems of American national security are not about weapons or tactics. Those complex problems can never be resolved simply by ramping up lethal...
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...
