Can Humanity Survive a Divided World?

by Louis René Beres, The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune Staff November 2026

What if the greatest threat to humanity is not war itself, but our inability to recognize that our survival depends on one another?
This is the central argument of Louis René Beres, a Princeton-educated scholar of international law and world politics, writing in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune.

Louis René Beres
Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with world politics and international law. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over recent years, he has published in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; JURIST; Jerusalem Strategic Tribune; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; Israel Defense; The New York Times; The Jerusalem Post; International Security (Harvard); World Politics (Princeton); Princeton Political Review; Modern Diplomacy; Horasis (Zurich); The War Room (US Army War College); Modern Diplomacy; Small Wars Journal; Air and Space Operations Review (USAF); Modern War Institute (West Point); and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book, published in 2016 (2nd ed., 2018) is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel's Nuclear Strategy. Professor Louis René Beres was an original member of the World Order Models Project at Princeton and Yale in the late 1960s. He was born in Zurich at the end of World War II.
The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune Staff

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