BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 516, July 2, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The utility of Israel’s nuclear strategy will ultimately depend on accurate assessments of enemy rationality. In this connection, the military planners in Tel Aviv must determine if an adversarial …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 494, June 11, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As North Korea continues its steadily expanding nuclearization, US President Donald Trump will have to prepare for extremely complex crisis diplomacy. Whether he decides upon a path of military …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 441, April 5, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: All states share a common and binding obligation to apprehend and punish terrorists. Although Israel remains on the front line of this rule and does everything possible to comply…
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 432, March 23, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s recent raids against Syrian targets are lawful and law-enforcing. Facing an increasingly dangerous Hezbollah, Jerusalem correctly understands that even a failed state has legal obligations not to assist …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 427, March 16, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Although concerns about a Trump confrontation with a nuclear North Korea are widespread, there has been little corollary discussion of crisis implications for other parts of the world. Yet …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 417, March 5, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There is no scientifically valid way to predict US presidential irrationality on expressly nuclear commands. Nor is there any analytically acceptable way for an American president to foretell the …
