Professor Beres was born in 1945 in Zurich, Switzerland. His parents are Viennese Jews who survived the Holocaust as refugees.
He has authored many books dealing with nuclear strategy and nuclear war, such as, America Outside the World: the Collapse of U.S. Foreign Policy (Lexington Books, 1987); Security or Armageddon: Israel's Nuclear Strategy (Lexington Books, 1986); Reason and Realpolitik: U.S. Foreign Policy and World Order (Lexington Books, 1984); and Terrorism and Global Security: the Nuclear Threat, which was the January 1980 Main Selection of the MacMillan Library of Political and International Affairs, and which is now in its second edition (Westview, 1987). He also contributes regular guest editorials to such newspapers as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, USA Today, Boston Globe, and The Jerusalem Post, among others. Professor Beres is a member of the Advisory Board of the NATIV Center for Policy Research (Tel-Aviv); the Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel); and Strategic and Military Affairs Analyst for The Jewish Press. He has taught at Princeton, the University of Illinois, and Simon Fraser University in Canada as well as at Purdue University. In Israel he has lectured at such venues as the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, the Dayan Forum, the Likud Security Group, the Likud Chamber, the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies and the National Defense College (Israel Defense Forces). More recently, he has published several co-authored articles in strategy and law journals with Ambassador Zalman Shoval (Israel's former Ambassador to the United States) and Col. (IDF/Res.) Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto (former Chief of Planning for the Israel Air Force). Email address: beres@polsci.purdue.edu Bio from faculty Website: http://www.polsci.purdue.edu/Directory/Faculty/beres.html
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