Ramesh Thakur

PM Anthony Albanese is no King Canute of Bondi Beach, valiantly holding back the tidal wave of demands for a Commonwealth royal commission.

On the night of 3 January, the US acted audaciously, decisively and to stunning effect to seize President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from the presidential palace in Caracas and spirit them away to New York.

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.,

While Israel is the Middle East's only true democracy, India is the world's largest democracy,

If the keening of pessimists is to be believed, this paper is written in the midst of the darkling dusk of an authoritarian age. Studies of the fate of democracy around the world—the countries that can be classified as democratic according to various criteria and the expansion and contraction in their numbers over time—has become a mini cottage industry in the academic and think tank worlds.

In a new three-part series, Ramesh Thakur examines dimensions of the Iran war. In part two, he analyses how the US-Israeli war may affect Iran's nuclear capacity and ambitions.

In a new three-part series, Ramesh Thakur examines dimensions of the Iran war. In part three, he takes a look at India's contemporary and historic relations with Iran.

The polarised debate on the World Health Organization (WHO) has been based more on mud-slinging and all-or-nothing dogma than scientific evidence and empirical data.

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deep failures in global health governance. That much is now widely acknowledged, even by institutions that initially resisted self-examination.

On 25 May 2025, after three years of negotiation under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pandemic Agreement was adopted.