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Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow, Toda Peace Institute; and Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He was an R2P commissioner and one of three authors of its report. His most recent book is Reviewing the Responsibility to Protect: Origins, Implementation and Controversies (Routledge, 2019).

Articles by Ramesh Thakur

TPNW book of signatures

The responsibility to disarm and the nuclear ban treaty

By Ramesh Thakur | Nuclear Weapons

The nuclear ban treaty enters force: The dawn of a nuclear order

By Ramesh Thakur | Collections, Nuclear Weapons

Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping

India–China border dispute: the curious incident of a nuclear dog that didn’t bark

By Ramesh Thakur, Manpreet Sethi | Nuclear Weapons

A central computer system monitors the heart rates of each patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) aboard the USNS Comfort, one of two hospital ships operated by Military Sealift Command. (US Navy photo)

How many intensive care beds will a nuclear weapon explosion require?

By Tom Sauer, Ramesh Thakur | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

Why Obama should declare a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons

By Ramesh Thakur | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Will The United States Take The Lead?

By Ramesh Thakur | Uncategorized