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Ramesh Thakur
Ramesh Thakur is Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; adjunct professor, Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Griffith University, and editor-in-chief of Global Governance from Jan. 1, 2013. He began writing for The Japan Times in 1998 as Vice Rector of the United Nations University.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2017
A U.N. milestone on the road to nuclear abolition
Nearly a half century after the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, the non-nuclear weapons states are no longer idly waiting for the nuclear powers to disarm.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 12, 2017
Is the sun setting on the U.S. imperium?
U.S. policy on Asia seems adrift under the Trump administration.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2017
Between Kim Jong Un's bluster and Trump's bluff
A resolution of the North Korean crisis requires a mixed strategy of pressure and engagement, not military threats.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2017
Trump more believable and moral than Putin?
In the Syrian strikes Trump effectively followed the policy of 'bomb first, prove later' — exactly the sequence Bush followed in Iraq in 2003 to commit the greatest geopolitical blunder since World War II.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2017
Decoding Trump's Syria strike
The use of chemical weapons and the unilateral retaliatory strikes show just how broken and dysfunctional the global order and its key institutions are.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 29, 2017
Don't obstruct efforts to ban nuclear weapons
It is time for the so-called realists to get real about the existential dangers of a world brimming with nuclear weapons.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2017
India's democracy is strained by illiberalism
India continues to be robustly, even chaotically, democratic. But its freedom is under growing threat.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 1, 2017
The Trump effect and Japan
Japan has an exceptional opportunity, while maneuvering to remain close to Washington, to reduce its unhealthy security and economic dependency on the United States, and to educate the U.S. administration on the merits and benefits of the key planks of a rules-based global order and international cooperation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2017
Trump's assault on the liberal international order
It is an irony of history that the president with the least previous foreign policy interest and experience could end up having the biggest impact on global affairs in a century.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2017
Trump is from Mars, Guterres is from Venus
The U.S. president and U.N. secretary-general are polar opposites, but if the world is to weather the gathering storm, the two will have to work together.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017
Australia needs to wake up, grow up
Australia must chart an independent foreign policy according to a Canberra-based calculation of national values and interests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2017
A call heard round the world
U.S. President Donald Trump is proving to be a master of bad diplomacy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2017
Will Donald Trump's persona destroy his administration?
U.S. President Donald Trump has done immense reputational harm to the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2017
Syria and the Hippocratic principle: first do no harm
Western interference has caused far more problems than it has solved across the region from Afghanistan to North Africa.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2017
Israel throws a U.N. tantrum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had only himself to blame for the U.S. decision to not veto a U.N. resolution criticising Israel's settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2016
Trump's effect on U.S. allies
Donald Trump's election could prove a disruptive force in forcing many allies to analyze the costs of the U.S. alliance alongside the benefits.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2016
Economic and political risks of India's demonetization
Has the Indian government burned down its economic house in order to eradicate the pest of corruption?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 14, 2016
Middle America flips off the oh-so-superior elites
The progressivism of the privileged has lost its appeal in the rust belts of America.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2016
Rattling the nuclear cage, and look who is terrified
Japan's opposition to a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons puts it on the wrong side of history.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2016
Aussie race hate law a weapon for identity politics
The Australian anti-discrimination act is used to bludgeon core freedoms that underpin liberal democracy.
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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