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2007 SPEAKERS
Douglas Adams
Dr. Richard Benkin
Prof. Louis Rene Beres
James Blom
Kevin Casey
Col. Bill Cowan
Dr. Andrew M. Colarik
Kevin Coleman
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Tom Darcy
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Ilana Freedman
Dave Gaubatz
Ra-anan Gissin
Jerry Gordon
Col. Jonathan Halevi
Scott Jackson
Alireza Jaffarzadeh
Lee Kaplan
Joe Kaufman
Laura Mansfield
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Ryan Mauro
Gen. Thomas McInerney
Richard Miniter
LTC. Joe Myers
Bob Newman
Patrick Poole
Konstantin Preobrazhensky
Dr. William Radasky
Klaus Schmidt
Avi Shachar
Wayne Simmons
Alon Stivi
Dr. Babu Suseeian
Gen. Paul E. Vallely
Chris Westphal
Dr Paul Williams
Terri K. Wonder
Secular Islam Summit:
Walid Phares
Shaker al-Nabulsi
Irshad Manji
Amir Taheri
Magdi Allam
Ibn Warraq
Fatemolla
Afshin Ellian
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi
Tawfik Hamid |
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Prof. Louis Rene Beres
Speaker
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Biography
Prof. Louis René Beres lectures and publishes widely on matters of terrorism, strategy and international law. The author of several early books on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, he is closely involved with Israeli security issues, and is Chair of "Project Daniel," a group advising Israel's former Prime Minister on existential nuclear questions. The group's final report, Israel's Strategic Future, has been the subject of several dozen editorial columns in some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers. Professor Beres' most recent articles have appeared in International Security (Harvard), and in the Policy Paper series of the Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel). His opinion columns appear in such major newspapers as The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz (Israel). He is also Strategic and Military Affairs analyst for THE JEWISH PRESS in New York City.
Louis Rene Beres was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971).
Selected Publications
Apocalypse: Nuclear Catastrophe in World Politics (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 315 pp.
Terrorism and Global Security: The Nuclear Threat (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979), 161 pp. (2nd ed., 1987).
Security or Armageddon: Israel's Nuclear Strategy (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1986), 242 pp.
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Session TBA
ON ASSASSINATION, PREEMPTION AND COUNTER TERRORISM: THE VIEW FROM INTERNATIONAL LAW
Louis Rene Beres, Ph.D. (Princeton, 1971)
Professor of International Law
Purdue University
Chair of Project Daniel
Professor Beres has lectured and published widely on both strategic and legal expressions of counter-terrorism, with particular reference to assassination (targeted killings) and anticipatory self-defense. As Chair of Project Daniel, a private advisory to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he has also urged Israel and/or the United States to consider various lawful forms of preemption against pertinent Iranian nuclear infrastructures. Here, at the 2007 International Intelligence Summit, Professor Beres will explain the jurisprudential bases of different forms of self-defense against terrorism, including the legal relevance of mega-terrorist threats and explicitly-genocidal enemy intentions. The author of many books and law journal articles, his specially-prepared remarks will reveal precisely how the normal expectations of humanitarian international law (the law of armed conflict) are necessarily modified whenever terrorist groups resort to "human shields" and to other types of "perfidy."
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