In April, US President Donald Trump directed White House officials to identify pathways to new arms control agreements with Russia and China. If he’s looking for a big and bold new idea, here’s one: a …
Articles by: "Ramesh Thakur"
The danger of a nuclear war, with catastrophic consequences for life as we know it, may be higher today than it was during the Cold War. The world got a sharp reminder of the threat …
In the military clashes between India and Pakistan in February, the international press was fixated on the ‘military gossip’ of casualties: who shot down how many planes and who won the battle of global media …
The suicide bombing of a paramilitary convoy in Pulwama, Kashmir, two weeks ago killed 44 soldiers and spurred a series of events that threatens to spiral into a full-blown conflict between India and Pakistan. In …
There are substantially fewer nuclear weapons today than at the height of the Cold War. Yet the overall risks of nuclear war—by design, accident, rogue launch or system error—have grown in the second nuclear age. …
In his annual New Year’s address, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he is committed to denuclearisation but will change course if the US persists with ‘sanctions and pressures’. The statement confirmed that all steps …
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was signed by US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987 to give effect to their declaration that ‘a nuclear war cannot be won …
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the end of the World War I. The century since has been dominated by four big geopolitical storylines. First, the US displaced Great Britain as the global hegemon and …
On 2 September, ahead of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit, the Pentagon announced the cancellation of US$300 million in aid to Pakistan for its alleged failure to take effective action against terrorist networks operating …
For someone who can sometimes elevate virtue-signalling above substance, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau betrays rare consistency in managing to offend a wide range of countries. Fittingly, the latest episode comes courtesy of Twitter, the …
Kofi Annan deserves to be remembered as a near-exemplary United Nations secretary-general (SG). Great chief executives need a guiding vision for the exercise of authority, and all the more so when that authority is international civil …
US President Donald Trump has been widely criticised for his supposed fawning performance in Helsinki at the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But a minority of commentators have made three countervailing arguments to explain …