America’s Overdue Middle East Withdrawal
rebuts four arguments against Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of Syria and Afghanistan.
Ramesh Thakur
Ramesh Thakur, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, is emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and co-convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He is the author of The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.
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Kofi Annan’s Achievement
reflects on the former UN Secretary-General's legacy for international peace and human security.
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What Sank the Kim-Trump Summit?
says next month's planned meeting in Singapore was doomed to fail from the start, for three reasons.
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The Long Road to Nuclear Disarmament
thinks the goal is unachievable in an international order where weapons reduction undermines security.
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Could the Trump-Kim Summit Succeed?
thinks there is a slim, but real, possibility that the US president's latest gambit will work.
