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Global Outlook Articles by Ramesh Thakur
Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Senior Fellow, Toda Peace Institute; and a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Board of Directors. He was formerly a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Co-Convenor of the APLN.
The Art of Saying ‘No’ to Trump’s Peace Board
By Ramesh Thakur | 29 January, 2026
There are two parts to US President Donald Trump’s revolutionary Board of Peace (BoP): a vote of no confidence in the United Nations and an alternative governance structure for maintaining international peace and security. The first part has some merit but the second is deeply flawed and likely to fall flat sooner rather than later.
The US National Security Strategy Returns to the World of Power Politics
By Ramesh Thakur | 04 January, 2026
The ‘Trump Corollary’ is imperialist in conception and interventionist in practice
Is Europe Dreaming of Colonial Era Dominance?
By Ramesh Thakur | 04 December, 2025
In an extraordinary act of foreign interference in a friendly country’s bilateral relations with a third country, the French, German and British envoys published an op-ed in The Times of India on Monday that was highly critical of India’s continued close relations with Russia.
The UN Security Council Endorses Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan
By Ramesh Thakur | 19 November, 2025
On 29 September, President Donald Trump announced an audacious 20-point Gaza peace plan. I cautioned earlier that there were many potholes to be navigated on the pathway to Middle East peace.
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: Today, Tomorrow and the Day After
By Ramesh Thakur | 04 October, 2025
On 29 September, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference to announce a peace plan for Gaza. The plan’s title could well have been “Gaza: Today, Tomorrow and the Day After”.
Trump’s Attacks on BRICS Could Strengthen Its Cohesion
By Ramesh Thakur | 21 August, 2025
At a time when the world is shifting into a period of multipolar multilateralism, Trump’s anger-fuelled attempts to coerce India and Brazil into abandoning BRICS could instead cement the group’s cohesion as the vehicle for democratising the architecture of international financial governance.
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