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Ramesh Chandra Thakur Present Position Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo Address Centre for International Governance Innovation 57 Erb Street West Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6C2 CANADA Telephone (1-519) 885-2444x291; (1-226) 338-2507 (cell) Fax (1-519) 885-5450 E-mail [email protected] Year and Place of Birth 23 Nov 1948, Sitamarhi, Bihar, India Nationality Australian, Canadian, New Zealand

Teaching Experience

2007– Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada

2006–2009 Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia

1980–1996 Lecturer; Senior Lecturer; Associate Professor; Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand

1978–1980 Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Fiji

1971–1978 Teaching Assistant, Queen’s University, Canada

Academic Qualifications

LL D (h c) 2006, University of Maryland University College

Ph D 1978, Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

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M A 1972, Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

B A (Hons) 1969, Political Science, University of Calcutta, India

Board and Commission Memberships

2007– International Advisory Board, Center for 21st Century Global Governance, University of Denver, USA

2006– International Advisory Board, Crisis Management Initiative, Helsinki, Finland

2006– International Advisory Board, Applied Research Centre in Human Security, Coventry University, UK

2006– International Advisory Board, Globus ut Locus, Milan, Italy

2006– International Advisory Board, Global South Development Forum, United Nations

2006– Citizens for Global Democracy, USA

2005–07 International Advisory Board, Institute for Conflict Resolution (INCORE), University of Ulster, Londonderry, UK

2005– International Advisory Board, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA

2004– International Council, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa

2004– International Advisory Board, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University, Canberra

2003– Scientific Council of a Network of Excellence on New Approaches to Security and the Role of Europe

2002– International Advisory Committee, Transformations in Multilateral Security Arrangements (New York University)

2002– International Advisory Board, Training for Peace Program (Southern Africa, West Africa, Norway)

2002–06 International Research Committee, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo)

2002–06 International Advisory Council, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK

2000–02 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS)


2000–05 International Advisory Board, Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research

1999– International Advisory Council, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

1999– International Advisory Board, United Nations Intellectual History Project, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

1998–2001 International Advisory Board, Southern African Regional Institute of Policy Studies (SARIPS), Harare, Zimbabwe

1995–98 National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament (Australia)

1990–96 Public Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament (New Zealand)

Administration

2003 – 2007 Senior Vice Rector, United Nations University and

Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations

1998–2003 Vice Rector (Peace and Governance), UNU

Jun-Sep 2002 Senior Adviser on Reform and Principal Writer of the Secretary-General’s second reform report, Office of the Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

1995–98 Head, Peace Research Centre, Australian National University

1995–98 Member, National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament (Australia)

1995 Director, Otago Foreign Policy School, New Zealand

1994 Chair, Panel to Review University Extension, University of Otago

1992–96 Director of Asian Studies and Chairman of Board of Asian Studies, University of Otago

1992–95 External Monitor, Bachelor of International Studies, International Pacific College (Consultant to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority)

1991 Chair, Working Party on Asian Studies at the University of Otago


1991–96 Member, Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC—a statutory body to advise the Government of New Zealand)

1990–91 National Vice-President, Association of University Teachers of New Zealand

1989–90 Director, Otago Foreign Policy School

1989–92 Division of Humanities representative on the Computing Services Standing Committee, University of Otago

Aug 1989– Acting Head of Department of Political Studies, May 1990 University of Otago

1989–90 President, New Zealand Political Studies Association

1987 Director, Symposium on International Conflict Resolution

1981– Member of Organising Committee, Otago Foreign Policy School

1985–88 Vice President, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Dunedin Branch

1982–85 President, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Dunedin Branch

1982–85 Secretary, Otago University Cricket Club

1981–82 Chairman, Organising Committee, New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference 1982

1981–82 Treasurer, New Zealand Political Studies Association

1976–77 President, India Association in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

1967–69 Secretary, St Xavier’s College Hostel, Calcutta

Editorial/Advisory Board Membership Series Editor, Canberra Series on Peace Research and Conflict Analysis (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), 1995–98

Asian Security Monograph Series, 2002–2006

Australian Journal of International Affairs (Australia) (Editor 1998–2000) Cambridge University Press, Asia–Pacific Series (1994-98) Cooperation and Conflict: Nordic Journal of International Studies (Scandinavia) (1993–96) Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations (UK) (1995–) International Peacekeeping (UK and USA) (1994-) International Studies Journal (Iran), 2005–


International Studies Quarterly (USA), (1999–2003) Pacific Research (Australia) (Editor-in-Chief, 1995–97) Peace and Conflict Studies (USA) (1995–98) Politics and Ethics Review (UK, 2005–) Security Challenges (Australia, 2005–) South African Journal of International Affairs (1998–)

Awards and Fellowships

1992–93 Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award 1992 Fulbright Visiting Lectureship 1990–91 Fulbright Travel Award 1990–91 Visiting Fellowship, Center of International Studies,

Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University 1986 Nordic Cooperation Committee for International Politics

Grant, Stockholm 1986 Visiting Fellowship, Department of Politics, Australian

Defence Force Academy, Canberra 1986 Visiting Fellowship, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre,

Australian National University 1985 International Visitor Program Award, USA 1983–86 Social Sciences Research Fund Committee Grant, New

Zealand 1976–78 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship 1975–76 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1974–75 Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowship 1971–74 Queen’s University Graduate Scholarship 1969 University of Calcutta Medal for First in Class One in

Political Science Honours 1965 Dux of School Medal

Publications


Books

Peacekeeping in Vietnam: Canada, India, Poland and the International Commission

(Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1984), pp. 390

In Defence of New Zealand: Foreign Policy Choices in the Nuclear Age (Boulder, CO:

Westview Press, Second Edition, 1986), pp. 247

______________________. First Edition (Wellington: New Zealand Institute of

International Affairs, 1984), pp. 164

International Peacekeeping in Lebanon: United Nations Authority and Multinational Force

(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987), pp. 356

The Soviet Union as an Asian Pacific Power: Implications of Gorbachev’s 1986

Vladivostok Initiative; ed. with Carlyle A. Thayer (London, Boulder and Melbourne:

Macmillan and Westview, 1987), pp. 236

International Conflict Resolution; ed. (Boulder, London and Dunedin: Westview and

University of Otago Press, 1988), pp. 309

The South Pacific: Problems, Issues and Prospects; ed. (London and New York: Macmillan

and St Martin’s Press, 1991), pp. 232

Soviet Relations with India and Vietnam (London and New York: Macmillan and St

Martin’s Press, 1992; with Carlyle A. Thayer), pp. 315

______________________. Revised and reprinted as Soviet Relations with

India and Vietnam, 1945–1992 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 369

Reshaping Regional Relations: Asia Pacific and the Former Soviet Union; ed. with Carlyle A. Thayer (Boulder: Westview, 1993), pp. 299 The Politics and Economics of India’s Foreign Policy (London, New Delhi and New York: C. Hurst, Oxford University Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1994), pp. 306 The Government and Politics of India (London: Macmillan, 1995), pp. 395 A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s; ed. with Carlyle A. Thayer (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 317


Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain: The United Nations at Fifty, ed. (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 275

______________________. Revised edition of The United Nations at Fifty:

Retrospect and Prospect, ed. (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1996), pp.

334

Keeping Proliferation at Bay, ed. (Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies, 1998), pp. 132 Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones, ed. (London/New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1998), pp. 235 Asia’s Emerging Regional Order: Reconciling Traditional and Human Security, ed. (with William T. Tow and In-taek Hyun) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 342 New Millennium, New Perspectives, ed. (with Edward Newman) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 334 Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective

Action, and International Citizenship, ed. (with Albrecht Schnabel) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 536 United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Ad Hoc Missions, Permanent Engagement, ed. (with Albrecht Schnabel) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001), pp. 267 Embracing the Millennium: Perspectives and Challenges for the United Nations and the

International Community, ed. (with Hans van Ginkel) (Tokyo: United Nations University, 2001), pp. 112 Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy?, ed. (with Andrew F. Cooper and John English) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2002), pp. 308 From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States, ed. (with William Maley and Charles Sampford) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003), pp. 369 Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse and Agenda: Political, Social, and Environmental

Perspectives, ed. (with Edward Newman) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 357


South Asia in the World: Problem Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable

Development, and Good Governance, ed. (with Oddny Wiggen) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 451 From Sovereign Impunity to International Accountability: The Search for Justice in a

World of States, ed. (with Peter Malcontent) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 305 International Commissions and the Power of Ideas, ed. (with Andrew F. Cooper and John English) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 317 Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance, ed. (with Simon Chesterman and Michael Ignatieff) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 400 Reforming from the Top: A Leaders’ 20 Summit, ed. (with Andrew F. Cooper and John English) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 319 Emerging Challenges in UN Peacekeeping Operations: An Indo-Japanese Dialogue, ed. (with Dipankar Banerjee) (New Delhi: Samskriti, 2006), pp. 262 The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to

Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 388 The Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities, ed. (with Ere Haru) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 190 The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, ed. (with Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 549

Arms Control After Iraq: Normative and Operational Challenges, ed. (with Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 452 Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change, ed. (with Edward Newman and John Tirman) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 563 Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping Operations, ed. (with Chiyuki Aoi and Cedric de Coning) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2007) War in Our Time: Reflections on Iraq, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2007) Global Governance and the United Nations (with Thomas G. Weiss) (in the UN Intellectual History Project series) (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming)


– Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice, ed. (with William Schabas and Edel Hughes) (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, forthcoming) – Institutionalizing Northeast Asia (with Martina Timmermann and Jitsuo Tsuchiyama) – Reconceptualizing Sovereignty (with Charles Sampford)

Monographs

Confidence-Building and Conflict Reduction in the South Pacific (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, Working Paper No 53, 1988) pp. 43 The NPT Review in 1995: A New Zealand Perspective (Canberra: Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, Working Paper No 25, 1994), pp. 30 The Last Bang before a Test Ban: French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific, (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, Working Paper No 159, 1995) pp. 39 New Security Perspectives in the Southern Hemisphere, ed. (with Roberto E. Guyer) (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, Working Paper No 166, 1996) pp. 69 What is Equitable Geographic Representation in the Twenty-first Century, ed. (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999), pp. 46 Conflict Prevention – The Secretary-General’s Report: The Way Forward. Report of a UNU/EOSG Expert Forum, ed. (with Albrecht Schnabel) (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999), pp. 55 Approximately 300 chapters in edited books, and articles in the following journals (in

print and forthcoming) (full details follow): Agenda (Australia) Alternatives (USA) Anthropology Review (Bangladesh) Asia Pacific Community (Japan) Asia Pacific Magazine/New Asia–Pacific Review (Australia) Asia Pacific Review (Japan) Asian Defence Journal (Malaysia) Asian Survey (USA) Australian Journal of International Affairs/Australian Outlook (Australia) Australian Journal of Politics and History (Australia) British Journal of International Studies (UK) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (USA)


Canadian Foreign Policy (Canada) Conflict Trends (South Africa) Contemporary Pacific (USA) Contemporary Southeast Asia (Singapore) Current Affairs Bulletin (Australia) Defence Quarterly (New Zealand) Economic and Political Weekly (India) Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies) (UK) Foreign Affairs (USA) Foreign Affairs Reports (India) Global Governance (USA) India Quarterly (India) International Journal (Canada) International Journal of Human Rights (UK) International Peacekeeping (UK) International Studies (India) International Studies Quarterly (USA) Journal of Defense & Diplomacy (USA) Journal of East Asian Studies (South Korea) Journal of Modern African Studies (UK) Journal of Peace Research (Norway) Journal of Peace Studies (Republic of Korea) Journal of Social Science (Japan) New Zealand International Review (New Zealand) Pacific Affairs (Canada) Pacific Review (UK) Peace and Conflict Studies (USA) Peace Review (USA) Policy (Australia) Policy Studies Review (USA) Political Science (New Zealand) Political Studies (UK) Queen’s Quarterly (Canada) Review of International Studies (UK) Round Table (UK) Security Dialogue (Norway) Third World Quarterly (UK) United Nations Chronicle (United Nations) U.S.I. Journal (India) World Today (UK)

In addition, periodic contributor to national and international newspapers, having published articles in The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review,

The Canberra Times, Daily News and Analysis, The Daily Yomiuri, The Financial Times,

The Globe and Mail, The Hindu, The International Herald Tribune, The Japan Times,

Newsweek (Japan), The Straits Times (Singapore), The Toronto Star, and others.


Articles & Book Chapters

“The Fate of India’s Parliamentary Democracy,” Pacific Affairs 49(2), Summer 1976, pp. 263–293 “Change and Continuity in Canadian Foreign Policy,” India Quarterly 33(4), October–December 1977, pp. 401–418 “The March 1977 Indian Election,” Queen’s Quarterly 84(3), Autumn 1977, pp. 420–432 “India’s Vietnam Policy, 1946–1979,” Asian Survey 19(10), October 1979, pp. 957–976;

reprinted in History of the Vietnam War (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International)

“Coexistence to Conflict: Hanoi-Moscow-Peking Relations and the China-Vietnam War,” Australian Outlook 34(1), April 1980, pp. 64–74 “Peacekeeping and Foreign Policy: Canada, India and the International Commission in Vietnam,” British Journal of International Studies 6(2), July 1980, pp. 125–153 “The Reasons for India’s Distinctive Approach [towards Afghanistan],” The Round Table No 280, October 1980, pp. 422–433 “The Return of the Helmswoman,” Queen’s Quarterly 87(4), Winter 1980, pp. 693–708 “Looking for the Yellow Brick Road,” New Zealand International Review 6(2), March/April 1981, pp. 9–11 [with Hyam Gold] “International Peacekeeping: The U. N. Interim Force in Lebanon,” Australian Outlook 35(2), August 1981, pp. 181–190 “Tacit Deception Reexamined: The Geneva Conference of 1954,” International Studies Quarterly 26(1), March 1982, pp. 127–139 “Tightening the Tasman Knot,” New Zealand International Review 7(2), March/April 1982, pp. 25–27 [with Hyam Gold] “Liberalism, Democracy and Development: Philosophical Dilemmas in Third World Politics,” Political Studies 30(3), September 1982, pp. 333–349 “The Falkland Islands Question: Conflict, Crisis, War—and Peace?” New Zealand

International Review 7(5), September/October 1982, pp. 8–14 [with G. Antony Wood]


“New Zealand and Australia: Free Trade Agreement Mark II,” The World Today 38(10), October 1982, pp. 402–410 [with Hyam Gold] “Non-Alignment in Today’s World,” New Zealand International Review 8(1), January/February 1983, pp. 10–15 “Nonalignment: Principle and Practice,” in T. J. Hearn, ed., Defence, Disarmament and

New Zealand (Dunedin: University of Otago, 1983), pp. 167–183 “The Politics of a New Economic Relationship: Negotiating Free Trade between Australia and New Zealand,” Australian Outlook 37(2), August 1983, pp. 82–88 [with Hyam Gold] “Soldiers of Peace: International Forces in a Troubled World,” Asian Defence Journal, November 1983, pp. 68–78 “The Antarctic Treaty Regime: Exclusive Preserve or Common Heritage?” Foreign Affairs

Reports 32(11 & 12), November–December 1983, pp. 169–186 [with Hyam Gold] “In the Shadow of Vietnam,” Asian Defence Journal, December 1983, pp. 82–86 “Concerning ‘Middlepowers as Extra-Regional Balancer Powers’,” Pacific Affairs 56(4), Winter 1983–1984, pp. 714–718 “The Olive Branch Brigades: Peacekeeping in the Middle East,” The World Today 40(3), March 1984, pp. 93–101 “New Zealand Defence Review 1983,” Asian Defence Journal, May 1984, pp. 90–97 “Peacekeeping in the Middle East: From United Nations to Multinational Forces,” Australian Outlook 38(2), August 1984, pp. 81–89 “Ministate and Macrocooperation: Fiji’s Peacekeeping Debut in Lebanon,” Review of

International Studies 10(4), October 1984, pp. 269–284 “Australia and New Zealand: The Role of Agriculture in a Closer Economic Relationship,” Policy Studies Review 4(2), November 1984, pp. 333–340 [with Hyam Gold] “Between Socialist Internationalism and Peaceful Coexistence: Poland and the Vietnam War,” Australian Journal of Politics and History 30(3), 1984, pp. 378–390 “New Zealand and ANZUS: From Milestone to Millstone?” Asian Defence Journal, December 1984, pp. 12–18 “American Policy in South Asia,” Political Science 36(2), December 1984, pp. 145–161


“Towards a Nuclear-Free New Zealand,” Asia Pacific Community 27, Winter 1985, pp. 16–27 “India and Overseas Indians: The Case of Fiji,” Asian Survey 25(3), March 1985, pp. 356–370 “New Zealand: In Search of a Defence Policy,” Asian Defence Journal, July 1985, pp. 52–60 “A Nuclear-Weapon-Free South Pacific: A New Zealand Perspective,” Pacific Affairs 58(2), Summer 1985, pp. 216–238 “ANZUS and the Nuclear Ships Ban: The American Reaction,” in Hyam Gold, ed., New

Directions in New Zealand Foreign Policy (Auckland: Benton Ross, 1985), pp. 52–60 “All That Twinkles Is Not Wonderful: Star Wars and its Shaky Terrestrial Foundations,” Asian Defence Journal, October 1985, pp. 28–34 “Australia and New Zealand: The Role of Agriculture in a Closer Economic Relationship” [with Hyam Gold], in William P. Browne and Don F. Hadwiger, eds., World Food Policies:

Toward Agricultural Interdependence (Boulder: Lynne Riener, 1986), pp. 63–77 “A Dispute of Many Colours: France, New Zealand and the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Affair,” The World Today 42(12), December 1986, pp. 209–214 “Nuclear Ship Visits: The Nordic Practice,” New Zealand International Review 12(3), May/June 1987, pp. 16–21 “The Indo-Soviet Military Relationship,” Asian Defence Journal, June 1987, pp. 20–30 “The ANZUS Cornerstone in the New Zealand Security Structure,” in Henry S. Albinski, ed., Strategic Imperatives and Western Responses in the South and Southwest Pacific (Honolulu: Pacific Forum, 1987), pp. 399–426 “New Zealand Defence Review 1985–1987,” Asian Defence Journal, July 1987, pp. 56–65 “International Peacekeeping, UN Authority and US Power,” Alternatives 12(4), October 1987, pp. 461–492 “Antarctica as a Nuclear-Free Zone,” in D. Pitt and G. Thompson, eds. Nuclear-Free Zones (London: Croom Helm, 1987), pp. 7–8 [with Hyam Gold] “The Treaty of Rarotonga: The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone,” in D. Pitt and G. Thompson, eds. Nuclear-Free Zones (London: Croom Helm, 1987), pp. 23–45


“Defence Reviews in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand,” International Journal 42(4), Autumn 1987, pp. 890–897 “Introduction,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., The Soviet Union as an

Asian Pacific Power: Implications of Gorbachev’s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative (London, Boulder and Melbourne: Macmillan and Westview, 1987), pp. 1–9 [with Carlyle A. Thayer] “Implications for South Asia,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., The Soviet

Union as an Asian Pacific Power: Implications of Gorbachev’s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative (London, Boulder and Melbourne: Macmillan and Westview, 1987), pp. 93–112 “Fiji in Crisis,” The World Today 43(12), December 1987, pp. 206–211 [with G. Antony Wood] “The Last Child–Seventh Generation Ethic,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., International Conflict

Resolution (Boulder, London and Dunedin: Westview and University of Otago Press, 1988), pp. 1–34 “International Peacekeeping,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., International Conflict Resolution (Boulder, London and Dunedin: Westview and University of Otago Press, 1988), pp. 175–196 “The New Zealand Parliament and Foreign Policy,” in M. L. Sondhi, ed., Foreign Policy

and Legislatures: An Analysis of Seven Parliaments (New Delhi: Abhinav, 1988), pp. 134–161 [with G. Antony Wood] “The Security of the Sea Lanes in the Asia-Pacific Region: A New Zealand View,” in Lau Teik Soon and Lee Lai To, eds., The Security of the Sea Lanes in the Asia-Pacific Region (Singapore: Heinamann Asia, 1988), pp. 210–237 “The Afghan Road to Kampuchea?” Asian Defence Journal (August 1988), pp. 54–58 “Fiji: The Way the World Should Be?” Journal of Defense & Diplomacy 6(11), November 1988, pp. 45–51 “The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone,” India Quarterly 44(3 & 4), July–December 1988, pp. 253–269

“Paradise Regained or Paradise Defiled? Fiji under Military Rule,” International Studies 26(1), January–March 1989, pp. 15–44 [with G. Antony Wood] “Confidence Building and Conflict Reduction in the South Pacific,” in Mutthiah Alagappa, ed., Building Confidence, Resolving Conflicts (Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, 1989), pp. 105–141


“Creation of the Nuclear-Free New Zealand Myth: Brinksmanship Without a Brink,” Asian

Survey 29(10), October 1989, pp. 919–939 “International Relations in New Zealand,” Australian Outlook 43(3), December 1989, pp. 51–73 “Nuclear Issues in the South Pacific,” in J. C. Dorrance, R. Thakur, J. Wanandi, L. R. Vasey, and R. L. Pfaltzgraff, The South Pacific: Emerging Security Issues and U. S. Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: Pergamon-Brassey, 1990), pp. 27–51 “India as a Regional Seapower,” Asian Defence Journal (May 1990), pp. 4–17 “Non-Intervention in International Relations: A Case Study,” Political Science 42(1), July 1990, pp. 26–61 “From Great Power Collective Security to Middle Power Peacekeeping,” in Hugh Smith, ed., Australia and Peacekeeping (Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, 1990), pp. 1–22 “The Gulf Crisis and the United Nations,” New Zealand International Review 16(1), January/February 1991, pp. 2–7 “Normalizing Sino-Indian Relations,” Pacific Review 4(1), March 1991, pp. 5–18 “Introduction to the South Pacific,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., The South Pacific: Problems,

Issues and Prospects (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 1–33 “UN Authority and U.S. Power,” in Anthony McDermott and Kjell Skjelsbaek, eds., The

Multinational Force in Beirut 1982–1984 (Miami: Florida International University Press, 1991), pp. 101–128 “India and the Soviet Union: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of Interests,” Asian Survey 31(9), September 1991, pp. 826–846 “Changing Forces in South Pacific International Relations,” in J. Henderson and R. N. Kennaway, eds., Beyond New Zealand II: Foreign Policy into the 1990s, 2nd ed. (Auckland: Longman Paul, 1991), pp. 27–42 “Bilateral Free Trade in Services,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 45(2), November 1991, pp. 223–241. “China and the World,” New Zealand International Review 16(6), (November/December 1991), pp. 2–11 “The Elusive Essence of Size: Australia, New Zealand, and Small States in International Relations,” in J. L. Richardson and Richard Higgott, eds., International Relations: Global


and Australian Perspectives on an Evolving Discipline (Canberra: ANU, Canberra Series in World Affairs No 30, 1991), pp. 241–87. “At the Frontiers of Free Trade: CER and FTA,” Policy 7(4), Summer 1991, pp. 24–29 “Disarmament Before the Fact: The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone,” New Zealand

International Review 17(2), March/April 1992, pp. 18–23 “India after Nonalignment,” Foreign Affairs 71(2), Spring 1992, pp. 165–182 “Canada and NAFTA,” New Zealand International Review 18(2), March/April 1993, pp. 7–13 “New Zealand and the South Pacific,” The Contemporary Pacific 5(1), Spring 1993, pp. 75–102 “The United Nations in a Changing World,” Security Dialogue (formerly The Bulletin of

Peace Proposals), 24(1), March 1993, pp. 7–20 “The North American Free Trade Agreement,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 47(1), May 1993, pp. 77–98 “Restoring India’s Economic Health,” Third World Quarterly 14(1), 1993, pp. 137–157 “Ayodhya and the Politics of India’s Secularism: A Double-Standards Discourse,” Asian

Survey 33(7), July 1993, pp. 645–664 “America and Anti-Nuclear Sentiments in the South Pacific and New Zealand,” in Zhao Mei, ed., The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region in the Twentieth Century (Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1993); published also in Chinese “From the Mosaic to the Melting Pot: Cross-National Reflections on Multiculturalism,” in Chandran Kukathas, ed., Multicultural Citizens: The Philosophy and Politics of Identity (Sydney: Centre for Independent Studies, 1993), pp. 103–141 “Asia-Pacific After the Cold War,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., Reshaping Regional Relations: Asia-Pacific and the Former Soviet Union (Boulder: Westview, 1993), pp. 1–26 “South Asia,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., Reshaping Regional

Relations: Asia-Pacific and the Former Soviet Union (Boulder: Westview, 1993), pp. 153–82 “Closer Defence Relations: Costs and Benefits to New Zealand,” in Robert A. Hall, ed., Australia-New Zealand: Closer Defence Relationships (Canberra: Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1993), pp. 107–142


“Abschied von der gelenkten Ökonomie,” der überblick 4/93, December 1993, pp. 67–73. “NAFTA: Creating the North American Trading Bloc,” New Zealand International Review 19(2), March/April 1994, pp. 9–16 “Human Rights: Amnesty International and the United Nations,” Journal of Peace

Research 31(2), May 1994, pp. 143–160 “From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: The UN Operation in Somalia,” Journal of

Modern African Studies 32(3), September 1994, pp. 387–410 “Russia and India: A Relationship on Hold,” in Peter Shearman, ed., Russian Foreign

PolicySince 1990 (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 225–246 “UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s: A Crisis of Expectations,” New Zealand International

Review 20(1), January/February 1995, pp. 6–9 “The United Nations in a New World Disorder,” in Kanti P. Bajpai and Harish C. Shukul, eds., Interpreting World Politics (New Delhi: Sage, 1995), pp. 162–189 “A Tiger Uncaged or an Elephant Still Shackled? The Re-emergence of India in the World Economy,” Current Affairs Bulletin 72(1), June/July 1995, pp. 4–14 “Peace-keeping,” in Malcolm Templeton, ed., New Zealand as an International Citizen:

Fifty Years of United Nations Membership (Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1995), pp. 62–80 “Between East and West, From South to North,” in Sandy Gordon and Stephen Hennigham, eds., India Looks East: An Emerging Power and its Asia–Pacific Neighbours (Canberra: Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 111, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1995), pp. 9–43 “UN Peacekeeping in the New World Disorder,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 3–22 “Peacekeeping in the Middle East,” in Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds., A Crisis

of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 25–50 “In Defence of Multiculturalism,” in Stuart Greif, ed., The Ethnic Diversity of New Zealand (Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1995), pp. 255–281 “From Collective to Cooperative Security? The Gareth Evans Vision of the United Nations,” in Stephanie Lawson, ed., The New Agenda for Global Security: Cooperating for

Peace and Beyond (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995), pp. 19–38


“Braucht Kaschmir ein Osloer Abkommen?,” der überblick 4/95, December 1995, pp. 67–70. “Introduction: Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., The United

Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect (Dunedin: University of Otago Press and Canberra: Peace Research Centre, 1996), pp. 1–32 “The Politics of India’s Economic Liberalisation Agenda,” Agenda: A Journal of Policy

Analysis and Reform 3(2), May 1996, pp. 207–217 “India and the United States: a Triumph of Hope over Experience?,” Asian Survey 36(6), June 1996, pp. 574–591 “Security Issues on the South Pacific Agenda,” in Asia–Pacific Security: The Challenges

Ahead (Canberra: Australian College of Defence and Strategic Studies, 1996), pp. 30–49 “The NPT Review in 1995: A New Zealand Perspective,” in Bunn Nagara and Cheah Siew Ean, eds., Managing Security and Peace in the Asia–Pacific (Kuala Lumpur: Institute for Strategic and International Studies, 1996), pp. 137–176 “The Last Bang Before a Total Ban: French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific,” International

Journal 51(3), Summer 1996, pp. 466–486 “Time for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World,” International Studies 33(3), July–September 1996, pp. 365–378 “From a Crisis of Credibility To a Crisis of Expectations: The Costs, Risks and Constraints of Expanded Peacekeeping,” Asian Defence Journal, August 1996, pp. 64–69 “The Asia–Pacific Region and the United Nations,” Contemporary Southeast Asia 18(2), September 1996, pp. 119–134 (with Samuel Makinda) “The Desirability of a Nuclear Weapon Free World,” in Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Background Papers (Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1996), pp. 74–88 “Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World,” Peace and Conflict Studies 3(2), December 1996, pp. 33–51 “Time for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World,” New Zealand International Review 22(1), January/February 1997, pp. 2–8 “India’s Changing Political Landscape: The Fall of the Congress System,” New Asia–

Pacific Review 3(2), 1997, pp. 39–42


“Human Rights: Amnesty International and the United Nations,” in Paul F. Diehl, ed., The

Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 247–268 “India in the World: Neither Rich, Powerful, nor Principled,” Foreign Affairs 76(4), July/August 1997, pp. 15–22 “Australia and New Zealand: Unequal Partners on the Periphery,” in James Cotton and John Ravenhill, eds., Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs, 1991–95 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1997), pp. 266–290 “A Diamond Can Be a Woman’s Best Friend,” The Asia–Pacific Magazine Nos 6 & 7 (1997), pp. 18–25 “Arms Control,” in Fedor Mediansky, ed., Australian Foreign Policy: Into the Next

Millennium (Sydney: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 130–161 “A Requiem for the Peace Research Centre,” in Susan Wareham, ed., Visions and Actions

for Peace (Canberra: Conference Proceedings, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War/Medical Association for Prevention of War [Australia], April 24–27, 1997), pp. 285–290 “India at 50: Child of Destiny or Melancholy?” The Asia–Pacific Magazine No 8 (1997), pp. 48–51 “From National to Human Security,” in Stuart Harris and Andrew Mack, eds, Asia–Pacific

Security: The Economics–Politics Nexus (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997), pp. 52–80 “Introduction,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain: The United

Nations at Fifty, ed. (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 1–14 “The Nuclear Option in India’s Security Policy,” Asia Pacific Review 5(1) Spring/Summer 1998, pp. 39–60 “Anti-Personnel Landmines,” Pacifica Review: Peace, Security and Global Change 10(1), February 1998, pp. 61–68 “Australia’s Regional Engagement,” Contemporary Southeast Asia 20(1), April 1998, pp. 1–21 “Introduction,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., Keeping Proliferation at Bay, ed. (Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies, 1998), pp. 1–17 “A Changing of the Guard in India,” Asian Survey 38(6), June 1998, pp. 603–623


“Stepping Stones to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., Nuclear

Weapons-Free Zones, ed. (London/New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1998), pp. 3–32 “NATO Enlargement, Alliances, and the International Strategic Landscape: A View from Asia-Pacific,” in Christine Wilson, ed., Enlargement of Europe: Issue and Global

Implications (Tokyo: Institute for International Policy Studies, Policy Paper 222E, February 1999), pp. 59–78 “New Zealand Strategic Culture: the Security and Tyranny of Isolation,” in Ken Booth and Russell Trood, eds., Strategic Cultures in the Asia–Pacific Region (London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 299–320 “Non-Compliance: Who Decides, and What to Do?,” Australian Journal of International

Affairs 53(1), April 1999, pp. 71–81 “Defence by Other Means: Australia’s Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy,” in Robert G. Patman, ed., Security in a Post-Cold War World (London/New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1999), pp. 181–207 “The Ottawa Convention on Landmines: A Landmark Humanitarian Treaty in Arms Control?” Global Governance (with William Maley), 5(3), July-September 1999, pp. 273–302 “South Asia and the Politics of Non-Proliferation,” International Journal 54(3), Summer 1999, pp. 404–417 “Kosovo and World Politics,” Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly (with Albrecht Schnabel)11(3), September 1999, pp. 455–460 “Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation: A Political Perspective,” in Jeffrey A. Larsen and Thomas D. Miller, eds., Arms Control in the Asia–Pacific Region (Colorado Springs: USAF Institute for National Security Studies, US Air Force Academy, 1999), pp. 39–61 “Defense by Other Means: Australia’s Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy,” in Stuart Nagel, ed., Handbook of Global International Policy (New York: Marcell Dekker, 2000), pp. 143–164 “UN Electoral Groupings Reform,” in Ramesh Thakur, ed., What is Equitable Geographic

Representation in the Twenty-first Century (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999), pp. 1–10 “Military-to-Military Cooperation: Pacific Community Issues,” in Frances Omori and Mary A. Somerville, eds., Strength Through Cooperation: Military Forces in the Asia−Pacific

Region (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1999), pp. 241−271


“The Role of the United Nations in the Changing World Order: Part 1,” U.S.I. Journal, Vol. 129, No. 538, October−December 1999, pp. 573−581 “The UN and Human Security,” Canadian Foreign Policy 7(1), Fall 1999, pp. 51−59 “The South Asian Nuclear Challenge,” in John Baylis and Robert O’Neill, eds., Alternative

Nuclear Futures: The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 101-124 “Taking the lead,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 56(1), January/February 2000. “Envisioning Nuclear Futures,” Security Dialogue 31(1), March 2000, pp. 25–40 “Human Security Regimes,” in William T. Tow, Ramesh Thakur and In-taek Hyun, eds., Asia’s Emerging Regional Order: Reconciling Traditional and Human Security (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 229–255 “Cascading Generations of Peacekeeping: Across the Mogadishu Line to Kosovo and Timor,” in Nassrine Azimi and Chang Li Lin, eds, The Nexus Between Peacekeeping and

Peace-Building: Debriefing and Lessons (The Hague: Kluwer Law International for the UN Institute for Training and Research, Geneva, the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, and the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo, 2000), pp. 225–243 “Sanctions: A Triumph of Hope Eternal over Experience Unlimited,” Global Dialogue 2(3), Summer 2000, pp. 129–141 “Kosovo, the Changing Contours of World Politics and the Challenge of World Order” (with Albrecht Schnabel) in Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Kosovo and the

Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and

International Citizenship (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 1–16 “Unbridled humanitarianism: Between justice, power, and authority” (with Albrecht Schnabel) in Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Kosovo and the Challenge of

Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International

Citizenship (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000), pp. 496–504 “On Civil Society, Human Insecurity and the Role of the UN,” in Park Soo-Gil et al., eds, The UN in the 21

st Century: Enhancing the Effectiveness of the UN in the New Millennium

(with Hans van Ginkel) (Seoul: Korean Academic Council on the United Nations System, 2000), pp. 25–38 “Humanitarian Intervention: Law, Hegemony and Legitimacy,” in Yang Chen Xu and Wu Miao Fa, eds, A New Challenge: Humanitarian Intervention in International Relations (Beijing: China Youth Publishing House, 2001), pp. 12–38 (in Chinese)


“UN Peacekeeping: Lessons Learned?” (with David Malone), Global Governance 7:1 (Jan.–Mar. 2001), pp. 11–17 “Global Norms and International Humanitarian Law: An Asian Perspective,” International

Review of the Red Cross 83: 841 (March 2001), pp. 19–44 “Human Rights: Amnesty International and the United Nations,” in Paul F. Diehl, ed., The

Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World, 2nd ed. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001), pp. 365–387 “Security in the New Millennium,” Anthropology Review 1 (July 2001), pp. 1–24 “Threats without Enemies, Security without Borders: Environmental Security in East Asia,” Journal of East Asian Studies 1:2 (August 2001), pp. 161–189 “Cambodia, East Timor and the Brahimi Report,” International Peacekeeping 8:3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 115–124 “Global Public Goods and Peace and Security in Asia,” Journal of Social Science 47 (September 2001), pp. 1–24 “Cascading Generations of Peacekeeping: Across the Mogadishu Line to Kosovo and Timor” (with Albrecht Schnabel), in Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel, eds., United

Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Ad Hoc Missions, Permanent Engagement (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001), pp. 3–25 “From An Agenda for Peace to the Brahimi Report: Towards a New Era of UN Peace Operations?” (with Albrecht Schnabel), in Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel, eds., United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Ad Hoc Missions, Permanent Engagement

(Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001), pp. 238–255 “An International Perspective on Global Terrorism” (with Hans van Ginkel), United

Nations Chronicle 38:3 (September–November 2001), pp. 71–73 “Sustainable Disarmament,” in Carl Ungerer and Marianne Hanson, eds., The Politics of

Nuclear Non-Proliferation (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin Australia, 2001), pp. 11–30 “Intervention, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: Experiences from ICISS,” Security Dialogue 33:3 (September 2002), pp. 323–340 “Security in the New Millennium,” in Andrew F. Cooper, John English and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy? (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2002), pp. 268–286

reprinted in Canadian Foreign Policy 10:1 (Fall 2002), pp. 57–70


“Defence, disarmament, and the United Nations,” in A Disarmament Agenda for the

Twenty-first Century (New York: United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, Occasional Papers No. 6, October 2002), pp. 33–63 “Why War Trumps Peace,” Global Governance 8:4 (October–December 2002), pp. 405–411 “UN Peace Operations and U.S. Unilateralism and Multilateralism,” in David Malone and Yuen Foong Khong, eds., Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International

Perspectives (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003), pp. 153–179 “India: democratic, poor, internationalist” (with Dipankar Banerjee), in Charlotte Ku and Harold K. Jacobson, eds., Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International

Law (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 176–204 “A United Nations for our Times,” U.S.I. Journal, Vol. 123, No. 551 (January–March 2003), pp. 69–85 “Introduction” (with William Maley and Charles Sampford), in William Maley, Charles Sampford, and Ramesh Thakur, eds., From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military

Responsibilities in Disrupted States (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003), pp. 1–13 “Iraq, UN and Changing Bases of World Order,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 38, No. 23 (June 7–13, 2003), pp. 2261–2266 “In Defence of The Responsibility to Protect,” International Journal of Human Rights 7:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 160–178 “Global Governance and the Challenge of US-UN Relations,” Al Muntada (Arab Thought Forum) Vol. 18, Issue 212 (September 2003), pp. 36–47 (in Arabic) “Reforming the United Nations: Changing with and for the Times,” International

Peacekeeping 10:4 (Winter 2003), pp. 40–61 “Arms control, disarmament and the United Nations” (with Patricia Lewis), Disarmament

Forum 2004 no. 1, pp. 17–28 “Introduction: South Asia’s manifold challenge to the international community” (with Oddny Wiggen), in Ramesh Thakur and Oddny Wiggen, eds., South Asia in the World:

Problem Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable Development, and Good

Governance (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 1–18 “Introduction: Non-traditional Security in Asia” (with Edward Newman), in Ramesh Thakur and Edward Newman, eds., Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse and Agenda:


Political, Social, and Environmental Perspectives (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 1–15 “Developing Countries and the Intervention-Sovereignty Debate,” in Richard M. Price and Mark W. Zacher, eds, The United Nations and Global Security (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 193–208 “Peace Operations and UN-US Relations,” Foreign Affairs Reports (New Delhi: Indian Council of World Affairs) 3:1–3 (January–March 2004), pp. 13–25 “The Political Role of the United Nations Secretary-General,” in Tatsuro Kunugi, ed., Taking Leadership in Global Governance. Report of the Tokyo Colloquium, 17 March 2004 (Tokyo: International Christian University Center of Excellence and International Cooperation Research Association, 2004), p. 7–14 “‘No More Rwandas’: Intervention, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect,” Humanitarian Exchange 26 (March 2004), pp. 7–9 “The United Nations and the Thee Pillars of Arms Control: Norms, Treaties and Coercion,” U.S.I. Journal, Vol. 124, No. 555 (January–March 2004), pp. 3–15 “Dealing with Guilt Beyond Crime: The Strained Quality of Universal Justice,” in Ramesh Thakur and Peter Malcontent, eds, From Sovereign Impunity to International

Accountability: The Search for Justice in a World of States (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004), pp. 272–292 “Iraq and the Changing Bases of World Order,” in Mohamed Jawhar Hassan, ed., Asia

Pacific Security: Investing in Peace (Kuala Lumpur: Institute of International and Strategic Studies, 2004), pp. 47–61 “Where US unilateralism meets UN-centred multilateralism,” Conflict Trends 2/2004, pp. 3–8 “Human Security: A Political Worldview,” Security Dialogue 35:3 (September 2004), pp. 347–348 “Von der Vorstellung zur Verwirklichung” (with Martina Timmermann), Internationale

Politik 59:9 (September 2004), pp. 37–44 “Farewell to Nuclear Arms?” UN Chronicle 41: 3 (September–November 2004), p. 64–65 “Iraq and the Responsibility to Protect,” Behind the Headlines 62:1 (Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, October 2004), 16 pp. “Water and Human Security” (with Vinayak Rao), Gandhi Marg 26:3 (October–December 2004), pp. 283–291


“The United Nations: At the Crossroads of Ideals and Reality,” Journal of Peace Studies 11:1 (December 2004), pp. 51–69 “Wieder vereinte Nationen,” Internationale Politik 60:1 (January 2005), pp. 102–07 “Iraq War and World Order,” in C Uday Bhaskar, Uttam K. Sinha, K. Santhanam and Tasneem Meenai, eds, United Nations: Multilateralism and International Security (New Delhi” Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2005), pp. 89–113 “United Nations, Iraq, and Peacebuilding,” Al Muntada (Arab Thought Forum) Vol. 20, Issue 220 (January 2003), pp. 59–69 (in Arabic) “Regionale Kooperation nach der Flut,” Internationale Politik 60:2 (February 2005), pp. 94–97 also in English as “From Shared Tragedy to Catharsis?,” Internationale Politik 6:1 (Spring 2005), pp. 94–98 “Introduction: Making states work” (with Simon Chesterman and Michael Ignatieff), in Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Making States Work: State

Failure and the Crisis of Governance (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 1–10 “Conclusion: The future of state-building” (with Simon Chesterman and Michael Ignatieff), in Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Making States Work:

State Failure and the Crisis of Governance (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 1–10 “Intervention, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect,” in Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper and John English, eds., International Commissions and the Power of Ideas (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 180–197 “The United Nations at the Crossroads of Ideals and Reality,” in Vijay Mehta, ed., The

United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century (London: Spokesman, for Action for UN

Renewal, 2005), pp. 36–51 “A Shared Responsibility for a More Secure World,” Global Governance 11:3 (July–September 2005), pp. 281–289 “The L20 in the twenty-first century” (with Andrew Thompson), in John English, Ramesh Thakur and Andrew F. Cooper, eds., Reforming from the Top: A Leaders’ 20 Summit

(Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005), pp. 296–311 “Collective Security and the Use of Force: Reflections on the Report of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change,” in Nassrine Azimi and Chang Li Lin, eds, United Nations as Peacekeeper and Nation-Builder: Continuity and Change – What Lies


Ahead (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff for the UN Institute for Training and Research, Geneva and the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 2005), pp. 31–48 “From Peacekeeping to Peace Operations,” Conflict Trends 4/2005, pp. 3–9 “Human Security and Intervention,” in Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball, eds., Strategy and

Security in the Asia-Pacific (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006), pp. 121–137 “Peacekeeping: History and Development,” in Gustaaf Geraerts, Natalie Pauwels, and Eric Remacle, eds., Dimensions of Peace and Security: A Reader (Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 221–238 “The United Nations: A Force for Peace,” World & I: Innovative Approaches to Peace (March/April 2006), pp. 28–35 “Introduction: Chemical Weapons and the Challenge of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Ramesh Thakur and Ere Haru, eds., The Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation

Challenges and Opportunities (Tokyo: United Nations University Press), pp. 1–14 “Iraq War and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 41, No. 30 (July 29–August 4, 2006), pp. 3297–3301 “Fast Forward to the Past? The Line in the Sand from Iraq to Iran.” CIGI Working Paper No. 7 (Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation, August 2006). “Enhancing Global Governance Through Regional Integration” (with Luk Van Langenhove), Global Governance 12:3 (July–September 2006), pp. 233–240 “Iraq’s Challenge to World Order” (with Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu), in The Iraq Crisis

and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, ed. by Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 3–15 “The Responsibility to Protect and the War on Saddam Hussein,” in The Iraq Crisis and

World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, ed. by Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 464–478 “Managing the Nuclear Threat After Iraq: Is it Time to Replace the NPT Paradigm?” in Arms Control After Iraq: Normative and Operational Challenges, ed. by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 1–19 “Introduction” (with Edward Newman and John Tirman), in Multilateralism Under

Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change, ed. by Edward Newman, Ramesh Thakur and John Tirman (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 1–17


“Conclusion” (with Edward Newman), in Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power,

International Order, and Structural Change, ed. by Edward Newman, Ramesh Thakur and John Tirman (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006), pp. 531–540 “Selecting the Next UN Secretary-General,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 41, No. 37 (September 16–22, 2006), pp. 3939–3941 “Nuclear Weapons, Anomalies, and Global Governance,” in 2003–2005 John W. Holmes

Memorial Lectures (Waterloo, Ontario: ACUNS Reports and Papers 2006 No. 1), pp. 21–31 “Der Elefant ist aufgewacht,” Internationale Politik 61:10 (October 2006), pp. 6–13 “North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear Disarmament,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 41, No. 42 (October 21, 2006), pp. 4403–4406 “Confronting ‘the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations’,” UN Chronicle 43:4 (October–December 2006), pp. 13–14 “The UN Role in Conflict Resolution and Peace Management,” in The Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, ed., Our Freedoms: A Decade’s Reflection on

the Advancement of Human Rights (London: International Bar Association, 2007), pp. 29–46 “Humanitarian Intervention,” in Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., Oxford Handbook

on the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Pres, forthcoming)


Newspaper Op-Ed Articles

Around 300 articles since 1977 in the following publications: The Asahi Evening News The Asahi Shimbun

The Asian Wall Street Journal

The Australian

The Australian Financial Review

The Canberra Times

The Christchurch Star(New Zealand) Daily News Analysis (Mumbai) The Daily Yomiuri

die tageszeitung (Berlin) The Dominion (Wellington, New Zealand) The Financial Times

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Hindustan Times

The Indian Express

International Herald Tribune

The Japan Times

The Kingston Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario) The Nation (Bangkok) The Nation (Boston) The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Times

Newsweek

The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) The Otago Daily Times (Dunedin, New Zealand) The Record (Kitchener, Ontario) The Straits Times (Singapore) The Toronto Star (Canada) Trends (Singapoe)

“Gandhi Held Country to Ransom,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 March 1977 “Immigration, Racism: The View from the Other Side,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 30 August 1977 “Sinai force guarantees,” New Zealand Times (Wellington), 15 November 1981 “Our nuclear options,” New Zealand Times, 9 May 1982


“Indian emergency has lesson for NZ,” New Zealand Times, 19 September 1982 “Afghanistan invites Vietnam analogy,” New Zealand Times, 4 September 1983 “Echoes of the Vietnam War [in Central America],” New Zealand Times, 18 September 1983 “United Nations as peacekeeper,” New Zealand Times, 19 February 1984 “Rejection [of UN Convention] a giant step backward for New Zealand women,” New

Zealand Times, 13 May 1984 “ANZUS contradictions from both sides,” New Zealand Times, 10 March 1985 “Lessons of the Rainbow Warrior affair,” Christchurch Star, 10 January 1987 “Will Zone be forceful or just farcical?” Christchurch Star, 24 January 1987 “Was Treaty decision one more blunder?” Christchurch Star, 2 March 1987 “Nuclear ships and the Nordic countries,” Christchurch Star, 7 March 1987 “User pays system, but after graduation,” Dominion (Wellington), 4 July 1988 “The underlying problems behind world conflict,” Otago Daily Times (Dunedin), 27 July 1988 “‘Shabby Trick’ with Super,” Otago Daily Times (Dunedin), 21 April 1990 “Gulf crisis tests UN’s ability,” Dominion, 3 September 1990 “Eight reasons why Iraq invaded Kuwait,” Otago Daily Times, 13 September 1990 “Elections and the Cube Law,” Otago Daily Times, 27 September 1990 [with Antony Wood] “Soviet disintegration, nuclear proliferation?” Otago Daily Times, 28 September 1991 “Test ban resolution success for New Zealand” Otago Daily Times, 30 December 1991 “Seeking security in Asia,” Dominion, 5 February 1992 “Significance of the Uruguay Round of Gatt Talks to New Zealand,” Otago Daily Times, 7 February 1992 “The Dichotomy of policies aimed at peace,” Dominion, 18 March 1992


“Open debate and the healthy democracy,” Dominion, 19 March 1992 “Time to befriend the Asian Tigers,” Dominion, 30 June 1992 “Between planning and free market lies a third way to development,” National Business

Review, 11 September 1992 “NZ has stake in NAFTA trade pact,” Dominion, 23 September 1992 “What Gatt talks failure would mean,” Dominion, 4 November 1992 “Into the Security Council, Out of the Nuclear Trap,” International Herald Tribune, 1 February 1993

published also as “Getting India Into Security Council and Out of the Nuclear Trap,” Straits Times (Singapore), 3 February 1993

“There’s more to Kiwi culture than Pakehas and Maoris,” Dominion, 18 May 1993 “New Zealand’s closer relations with Asia,” Otago Daily Times, 12 July 1993 “Changed realities spur Kiwi links with Asia-Pacific,” Trends (a monthly supplement to the Business Times, Singapore), 31 July–1 August 1993 “Cultural preferment policy dangerous,” Dominion, 19 August 1993 “Solving the Kashmir dispute,” Trends, 30–31 October 1993 “A race to Asian prosperity,” International Herald Tribune, 25 March 1994 “Can India catch the bug of Chinese economic vibrancy?” Trends, 26–27 March 1994 “Why New Zealand should say no to Bosnia,”Dominion, 27 May 1994 (also in the Otago

Daily Times, 31 May 1994) “If we want to help in Bosnia-like conflicts, military allies are vital,” The Press (Christchurch), 31 May 1994 “Nuclear flash-point in North Korea,” Otago Daily Times, 21 June 1994 (also in the Dominion, 23 June 1994, as “Nuclear genie out of the bottle”) “Tie That Binds Moscow and Delhi Is Hardware,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 29 June 1994 “The Changing Indo-US relationship,” Trends, 25–26 June 1994


“Why the UN appears so helpless in curbing brutal civil wars,” The Press, 22 August 1994

published also as “UN faces onslaught of nasty civil wars,” Trends, 27–28 August 1994; also as “End of the Cold War does not guarantee peace,” Straits

Times, 29 August 1994

“Pratfalls of Preferential Policy,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 28 November 1994 “Trade Follows the Flag to India…,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 16 January 1995 “Why India is an Asian giant worth watching,” Australian Financial Review, 31 March 1995 “It [the NPT] might not be perfect, but so far it’s the best we’ve got,” Australian Financial

Review, 12 April 1995

published also as “Nuclear arms issues that won’t stay under the rug,” Dominion, 18 April 1995; also as “Hold nuclear powers to disarmament obligations,” Straits Times, 18 April 1995

“… And India Understands Why [Pakistan Shuns the NPT],” Asian Wall Street Journal, 19 April 1995 “France’s threat to nuclear treaties,” The Press, 24 May 1995 “Sitting ducks in an uncivil war,” The Australian, 1 June 1995

published also as “Perils of muddling through a war,” Dominion, 14 June 1995; also as “UN stuck in Bosnia quagmire,” Straits Times, 7 June 1995

“Mururoa: why Canberra must take the high ground,” Australian Financial Review, 26 July 1995

published also as “Case to take France to the UN,” Dominion, 1 August 1995

“Put India and Pakistan on the Oslo Track to Peace,” International Herald Tribune, 11 August 1995 (with Ahmed Rashhid)

reprinted in The Asian Age (New Delhi), 20 August 1995, and in the Pakistani press; published also as “How India and Pakistan could try to reach peace over Kashmir,” Press (Christchurch), 18 August 1995; and “An Oslo Track to peace for India and Pakistan,” Australian Financial Review, 29 August 1995

“France’s Finger-Pointing at Chinese Tests Obscures the Issue,” International Herald

Tribune, 20 September 1995 “A Testing Time,” Newsweek (Japan, in Japanese), 18 October 1995, pp. 32–33


“The UN at 50: Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain,” Straits Times, 19 October 1995;

published also as “The United Nations: Flawed but still worthy of support,” Australian Financial Review, 23 October 1995

“Can India Go On… Nuclear Power,” Straits Times, 19 December 1995; “Globalising Security Council representation,” Trends, No. 64, 30–31 December 1995. “India’s regional dilemma makes it a nuclear pariah,” Australian Financial Review, 11 January 1996 “India playing puzzling game of catch-up,” Australian Financial Review, 22 March 1996; “India’s about-face threatens to sink nuclear test-ban treaty,” Press, 10 April 1996 “India’s economic reforms at risk from political populism,” Australian Financial Review, 24 April 1996 “Why the Military Nuclear Option Would Be Wrong for India,” International Herald

Tribune, 27 April 1996 “Economic realities show New Zealand’s future lies in the Asia–Pacific,” Straits Times, 9 May 1996 “Asia holds key to NZ interests,” Press, 15 May 1996 “India’s Intransigence on a Test Ban Is Dangerous,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 27 June 1996 “NZ First’s last resort,” Australian Financial Review, 4 July 1996 “Boutros-Ghali is not the man for another term as head of the UN,” Press, 8 July 1996 “Why India drags its feet on nuclear test ban,” Australian Financial Review, 10 July 1996 “Sign the test ban treaty without India,” Straits Times, 10 July 1996 “Nuclear States should not let India torpedo the test-ban treaty,” Press, 24 July 1996 “Get On With the Test Ban Treaty and Warn India,” International Herald Tribune, 22 August 1996 “Nuclear test of an arms control position,” Australian Financial Review, 26 August 1996 “Nuclear India needs coaxing, not coercion,” The Australian, 6 September 1996


“Get Test Ban Treaty Operational and Let India Join Later,” International Herald Tribune, 9 September 1996 “UN seat would only blur policy vision,” Australian Financial Review, 25 October 1996 “For India, a Diplomatic Crisis and Opportunity,” International Herald Tribune, 31 October 1996 “India retreats into make-believe in foreign policy and pays for it,” Press, 11 November 1996 “Immigrants Down Under Face Hurdles to Get Over,” International Herald Tribune, 13 November 1996 “NATO - Anachronism of the Cold War or anchor for European security?”, Straits Times, 27 February 1997 “India Takes a Step in the Right Direction,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 6 March 1997 “Time for an India-Pakistan Rapprochement,” International Herald Tribune, 14 March 1997 “Crimson thread wears thin,” Australian Financial Review, 24 April 1997 “Relations across the Tasman Sea,” Trends, No. 80, 26–27 April 1997.

reprinted in the Bangkok Post, 11 May 1997, and as “Australia and New Zealand forge closer ties,” Jakarta Post, 11 May 1997

“The Pauline Hanson Saga”, Straits Times, 24 May 1997 “The fearful and inadequate find a strident new voice in Australia,” Press, 26 May 1997 “India’s Tired Congress Party,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 11 August 1997 “Yes, Celebrate Fifty Years of Indian Democracy,” International Herald Tribune, 14 August 1997

reprinted as “India survives half a century of turmoil with democracy intact,” Press, 14 August 1997

“India’s tears are still flowing,” Australian Financial Review, 14 August 1997 “To Help India’s Poor, Focus on Creating Wealth,” International Herald Tribune, 15 August 1997


reprinted as “How Nehru’s policy multiplied the poverty of India’s millions,” Press, 15 August 1997

“There’s No Need for Weapons of Slow-Motion Mass Murder,” International Herald

Tribune, 17 September 1997 “The Best Choice for India: No Nukes,” Asian Wall Street Journal, 8 October 1997 “India’s exemplary republic,” Australian Financial Review, 13 November 1997 “No to time-release mass murder weapon,” Japan Times, 17 December 1997 “A nuclear-weapon-free zone for Central Asia,” Trends, No. 88, 27–28 December 1997 (reprinted in the Jakarta Post, 4 January 1998, and the Bangkok Post, 25 January 1998 “Will Sonia bury a family’s mystique or save a party?”, Straits Times, 17 January 1998 “Tempering force with justice,” The Australian, 10 February 1998

reprinted as “No alternative to military strike, he respects only force”, Straits

Times, 17 February 1998

“Lessons for the learning in a world with just one superpower,” The Australian, 25 February 1998 “The United States and the United Nations Need Each Other,” International Herald

Tribune, 27 February 1998 “The lessons from the war that wasn’t,” Japan Times, 2 March 1998 “Architecture of global finance is wobbling,” Japan Times, 23 March 1998 “India’s defiance tests our diplomacy,” Australian Financial Review, 15 May 1998 “India Was Wrong to Test, but What Can the World Do?,” International Herald Tribune, 19 May 1998 “Rebottling the nuclear genie,” Japan Times, 2 June 1998 “End nuclear club’s hypocrisy,” Japan Times, 5 July 1998 (with Ralph Cossa) “Britain, India and Pakistan Could Start a Disarmament Club,” International Herald

Tribune, 11 July 1998 (with Ralph Cossa) “Next to Subcontinent Face-Off, the Cold War Looks Safe,” International Herald Tribune, 20 July 1998


“Six lessons from South Asia,” Japan Times, 27 July 1998 “How East Asians Are Finding fault with the IMF,” International Herald Tribune, 13 August 1998 “Lessons to be learned from Hansonism,” Japan Times, 6 September 1998 “Fatal, foolish, futile sanctions,” Japan Times, 12 November 1998 “Protect children from brutalities of war,” Japan Times, 28 November 1998 “Teaming Up to Make Human Rights a Universal Fact,” International Herald Tribune, 10 December 1998

published also as “Fifty years of human rights,” Japan Times, 10 December 1998

“India’s politics of destruction,” Japan Times, 7 February 1999 “Stuck between war and peace” (with Ralph Cossa), Japan Times, 18 February 1999

published also as “Kashmir and Korea: Intractable Conflicts in a Nuclear Shadow,” International Herald Tribune, 23 February 1999

“Asia’s European theater: NATO enlargement brings change to the Pacific,” Japan Times, 8 March 1999

published also as “How a NATO Ripple Effect Could Reach the Pacific,” International Herald Tribune, 23 March 1999

“Kosovo teaches might is right,” Japan Times, 19 April 1999

reprinted in The Zimbabwe Mirror, 11–17 June 1999

“No end in sight to India’s political turmoil,” Japan Times, 26 April 1999 “The West’s Kosovo Rationale Doesn’t Look Virtuous,” International Herald Tribune, 20 May 1999 “Kosovo’s lessons in racism,” Japan Times, 21 May 1999

reprinted in The Zimbabwe Mirror, 25 June–1 July 1999

“The soft approach to security,” Japan Times, 30 May 1999 “The U.N. at millennium’s end,” Japan Times, 23 June 1999


“UN Must Balance Its Idealism With Global Reality,” International Herald Tribune, 25 June 1999 “India Should Take Kashmir Off the International Agenda,” International Herald Tribune, 5 July 1999 “Real national security puts children first,” (with Manzoor Ahmed), Japan Times, 5 July 1999 “India’s window of opportunity in Kashmir,” Japan Times, 10 July 1999 “Nuclear-weapon-free zone: An ‘allergy’ worth having,” Japan Times, 26 August 1999 “Towards Arms Control in Central Asia,” International Herald Tribune, 1 September 1999 “A future role for the U.N.,” Japan Times, 29 September 1999 “NGOs reshape the world of diplomacy,” Japan Times, 18 October 1999 “U.N. peacekeepers take stock,” Japan Times, 30 October 1999 “An army that does not bark,” Japan Times, 6 November 1999 “Prospects of a military coup in India,” Japan Times, 7 November 1999 “Citizens Are Organizing for Big Change,” International Herald Tribune, 19 November 1999 “China, India, Russia: Eyeing New Alignments” (with Zhang Yunling), International

Herald Tribune, 30 November 1999 “Touching our Daily Lives…” United Nations Chronicle 36(4), 1999 “Making the world safer for children” (with Manzoor Ahmed), Japan Times, 15 December 1999

published also as “Children in Poor Nations Still Need World’s Help,” International Herald Tribune, 30 December 1999

“High stakes in the war on terrorism,” Japan Times, 10 January 2000 “Defining New Goals for Diplomacy of the 21st Century” (with Steve Lee), International

Herald Tribune, 19 January 2000

published also as “Enhancing global security,” Japan Times, 23 January 2000


“Affirmative Action for Indians Is Multiplying Out of Control,” International Herald

Tribune, 17 February 2000 “Managing global development” (with Giovanni Andrea Cornia), Japan Times, 28 February 2000 “NATO in the Balkans: Between failure and disaster,” Japan Times, 1 April 2000 “Peace’s high price in Kosovo,” Japan Times, 9 April 2000 “Alternative nuclear futures,” Japan Times, 17 April 2000 “Nuclear lessons the world can learn from South Asia,” Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese), 17 April 2000

published also in Asahi Evening News (English), 17 April 2000

“The Best Solution to Nuclear Proliferation is Nuclear Disarmament,” International Herald

Tribune, 22 April 2000 “How New Zealand Overshadows Australia, Its Larger Neighbor” (with William Maley), International Herald Tribune, 29 April 2000

published also as “The kiwi and the kangaroo,” Japan Times, 30 April 2000

— “Dialogue: Centre-stage roles for diplomatic bit player,” New Zealand

Herald, 9 May 2000

— “NZ diplomacy trumps Australian power,” Australian Financial Review, 25 May 2000

“The U.N.’s impossible task,” Japan Times, 28 May 2000 “Japan, Australia define regional responsibility,” Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese), 29 May 2000

published also in Asahi Evening News (English), 29 May 2000

“Back to what they do best,” Japan Times, 21 June 2000 “Corruption undermines India,” Japan Times, 1 July 2000 “Beat swords into plowshares,” Japan Times, 19 July 2000 “G-8 nations vs. the rest of the planet,” Japan Times, 24 July 2000 “Japan, India should work together on world stage,” Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese), 31 July 2000


published also in Asahi Evening News (English), 31 July 2000

“It’s Delhi’s move in Kashmir,” Japan Times, 6 August 2000 “India, where society is bribery’s bride,” Australian Financial Review, 11 August 2000 “A Safer World and a Better Life” (with Hans van Ginkel), United Nations Chronicle 37(2), 2000, pp. 16–17 “Japan’s Rendezvous with India,” International Herald Tribune, 16 August 2000 “Australia’s festering wound: Suffer the stolen children,” Japan Times, 20 August 2000 “Multiculturalism and meritocracy are key,” Japan Times, 10 September 2000 “U.N. deaths are no surprise,” Japan Times, 24 September 2000 “Asian security order introduces unique changes,” Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese), 10 October 2000

published also in Asahi Evening News (English), 11 October 2000

“India shooting itself in the foot,” Japan Times, 15 October 2000 “Rich and Afraid of Peacekeeping” (with David Malone), International Herald Tribune, 25 October 2000

published also as “Racism in peacekeeping,” Globe & Mail (Toronto), 30 October 2000

published also as “Tribes within the UN,” Hindustan Times (Delhi), 20 November 2000

published also as “Western peacekeepers’ flight from Africa,” Japan Times, 25 November 2000

“The special mandate of peace research,” Japan Times, 11 November 2000 “Dusting off Russo-Indian ties,” Japan Times, 20 November 2000 “The sanctions boomerang,” Hindustan Times, 4 December 2000 “Sanctions target the innocent,” Japan Times, 25 December 2000 “Solving the Kashmir dispute,” Japan Times, 31 December 2000 “Horizon in the east,” Hindustan Times, 3 January 2001


“The Abiding Lessons of South Asia’s Nuclear Tests,” BICC Bulletin No. 18 (1 January 2001) (Bonn International Center for Conversion) “Overseas Indians: Use them or lose them,” Japan Times, 15 January 2001 “Partnerships for humanitarian crises,” Japan Times, 22 January 2001 “Getting India’s Children to Pitch In,” International Herald Tribune, 26 January 2001 “Banks untouched by evolution,” Japan Times, 29 January 2001 “A tactical retreat” (with David Malone), Globe & Mail, 8 February 2001 “A Foreigner’s Frustrations Trying to Bank in Japan,” International Herald Tribune, 15 February 2001 “Meanwhile, the Atomic Genie Remains Firmly Out of the Bottle” (with David Malone), International Herald Tribune, 2 March 2001 “Vandalism in Afghanistan and No One to Stop It” (with Amin Saikal), International

Herald Tribune, 6 March 2001 “Trade NMD for the CTBT” (with David Malone), Japan Times, 11 March 2001 “Sadly, conflicts make sense,” Japan Times, 17 March 2001 “A Plague of Venality in Public Life Weakens India,” International Herald Tribune, 21 March 2001 “Dissenting from globalism,” Japan Times, 21 March 2001 “Parliamentary democracy isn't perfect but it's the best form of government we have,” Japan Times, 26 April 2001 “Zimbabwe: The politics of land and race,” Japan Times, 6 May 2001 “The hallucinogenic security of nuclear mushroom clouds,” Japan Times, 12 May 2001 “Missile defence isn’t completely absurd,” Globe & Mail, 16 May 2001 “New Zealand Should Outgrow Smugness,” International Herald Tribune, 17 May 2001 “Holes in the plan for NMD,” Japan Times, 19 May 2001 “Wellington reaches out to Asia,” Japan Times, 3 June 2001


“Japan’s Koizumi Off to a Good Start,” International Herald Tribune, 18 June 2001 “India watches as Nepal’s drama unfolds,” Japan Times, 21 June 2001 “Injustice across borders?,” Japan Times, 13 July 2001 “Why peace exceeds our grasp,” Globe & Mail, 14 July 2001 “Yes to International Justice, but It Won’t Be Easy,” International Herald Tribune, 17 July 2001 “We Need More Clean Water for Health and Peace,” International Herald Tribune, 14 August 2001 “Environmental destruction dooms us all,” Japan Times, 19 August 2001 “Does the United Nations still matter?” (with David Malone), Globe & Mail, 24 August 2001 “Waiting to See if a UN Conference Can Be Serious” (with David Malone), International

Herald Tribune, 29 August 2001 “U.N. put to test at Durban” (with David Malone), Japan Times, 2 September 2001 “Uniting to end the scourge of terrorism,” Japan Times, 16 September 2001 “Vengeance offers no solution,” Japan Times, 25 September 2001 “Faults of the most benign world power,” Japan Times, 3 October 2001 “Multilateralism is in America’s interest,” Japan Times, 6 October 2001 “Blaming others is no solution,” Japan Times, 29 October 2001 “Income disparity vs. growth,” Japan Times, 25 November 2001 “When using force is fitting,” The Australian Financial Review, 19 December 2001 “When to intervene: Collective might in service,” Japan Times, 20 December 2001 “Brinksmanship, not war,” The Australian, 31 December 2001 “South Asian drumbeats of war,” Japan Times, 5 January 2002 “Commission a model of global cooperation,” Japan Times, 28 January 2002


“Tackling global terrorism,” Japan Times, 2 February 2002 “Threats to U.N. ‘legitimacy’,” Japan Times, 17 February 2002 “Help the huddled masses,” Japan Times, 25 February 2002 “The civilized must talk,” Globe and Mail, 27 February 2002 “Dialogue among the civilized is urgent,” International Herald Tribune, 11 March 2002 “A silver lining in Gujarat state's riots,” Japan Times, 23 March 2002 “In the wake of India’s tragedy, six reasons for hope,” International Herald Tribune, 25 March 2002 “Iran’s vibrant society surprises a visitor,” International Herald Tribune, 4 April 2002 “Working for a safer world,” Japan Times, 17 April 2002 “Try a joke book guide to international affairs,” International Herald Tribune, 18 April 2002 “Unilateralism is not the way,” Japan Times, 13 May 2002 “South Asia challenges U.N.” (with Oddny Wiggen), Japan Times, 26 May 2002 “Start Indo-Pakistani peace process by recognizing LOC,” Japan Times, 3 June 2002 “Let’s get together against terrorism” (with Jayantha Dhanapala), International Herald

Tribune, 4 June 2002 published also as “Preventing a new dark age,” Japan Times, 16 June 2002; published also as “Hanging by a thread,” Globe and Mail, 17 June 2002. “Peacekeeping – Diplomacy’s Odd Couple, the U.S. and the UN,” International Herald

Tribune, 26 June 2002 “Reforming the UN – An encouraging start under Annan,” International Herald Tribune, 19 July 2002 “The International Criminal Court: Politics vs. justice at The Hague” International Herald

Tribune, 16 August 2002 “The ICC: When guilt goes beyond crime,” Japan Times, 24 August 2002 “Restoration vs. retribution: Best justice for crimes against humanity,” Japan Times, 25 August 2002


“Eine Grenze für das Paradies,” die tageszeitung (Berlin), 13 September 2002 “Testing times for the U.N.,” Japan Times, 21 September 2002 “A lean, mean, diplomacy machine,” Globe and Mail, 26 September 2002 “U.N. aims higher with sweeping reforms,” Japan Times, 8 October 2002 “Peril of pre-emptive thinking,” Japan Times, 20 October 2002 “A proven way to end India’s communal riots” International Herald Tribune, 20 November 2002 “Bridging North-South gap” (with David Malone), Japan Times, 2 December 2002 published also in Globe and Mail, 2 January 2003 “U.N. WORK AGENDA: Capturing today's relevant aspirations,” Japan Times, 15 December 2002 “INDIA AND ISRAEL: United in the trauma of terror,” Japan Times, 19 December 2002 “North and South: the twain shall meet” (with David Malone), Globe and Mail, 2 January 2003 “Intervention could bring safeguards in Asia,” Daily Yomiuri, 3 January 2003 “China is outperforming India” International Herald Tribune, 7 January 2003 “Coping with a grayer world,” Japan Times, 18 January 2003 “Migrants: Millions are on the move” International Herald Tribune, 22 January 2003 “China leaves India in the dust,” Japan Times, 27 January 2003 “U.S. test of U.N. relevance,” Japan Times, 9 February 2003 “Decisive war could enhance US prestige,” Canberra Times, 21 February 2003 “Letter to America: War for the wrong reasons will deligitimize the instrument itself,” The

Nation 276:8 (3 March 2003), pp. 30–31 “U.S. bears costs as U.N. is challenged,” Japan Times, 12 March 2003 “The United Nations: More relevant now than ever” (with Andrew Mack), Japan Times, 23 March 2003


“Risks of selected 'free trade',” Japan Times, 30 March 2003 “Let’s decide what kind of world we want” International Herald Tribune, 17 April 2003 “Victory no vindication of Iraq war,” Canberra Times, 22 April 2003 “War vindicates U.N. stance,” Japan Times, 27 April 2003 “US was right to pre-empt Saddam,” Canberra Times, 28 April 2003 “End of the old world disorder?,” Japan Times, 10 May 2003 “Create intl border to halt India-Pakistan dispute,” Daily Yomiuri, 16 May 2003 “World security is jeopardised by ongoing nuclear testing,” Canberra Times, 19 May 2003 “Humor's role in war survives,” Japan Times, 19 May 2003 “Contradictory U.S. triumph,” Japan Times, 1 June 2003 “World remains sceptical about need for war,” Canberra Times, 11 June 2003 “Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum,” The Nation 277:2 (7 July 2003), pp. 19–20 “Politics of human migrations,” Japan Times, 7 July 2003 “U.S. considers U.N. approval of force optional,” Daily Yomiuri, 9 July 2003 “Why India said 'no' to U.S.,” Japan Times, 17 July 2003 “Chrétien was right: It's time to redefine a 'just war',” Globe and Mail, 22 July 2003 “Airline clipped its own wings,” Japan Times, 3 August 2003 “Choosing human security,” Japan Times, 18 August 2003 “Too early to write off India,” Japan Times, 8 September 2003 “A doubly damaged UN needs to change” International Herald Tribune, 26 September 2003 “World holds vested interest in a successful South Africa,” Japan Times, 5 October 2003 “China-India cooperation pays dividends,” Daily Yomiuri, 3 October 2003


“South Africa’s challenge,” Japan Times, 16 October 2003 “UNSC: Reforming the United Nations,” Daily Yomiuri, 24 October 2003 “Antinuke regime crumbling,” Japan Times, 24 October 2003 “Is Japan to mainland Asia what Britain is to Europe?” (with Takashi Inoguchi), Japan

Times, 9 November 2003 “Reforming the United Nations,” Japan Times, 8 December 2003 “Celebrating Human Rights Day in an oppressive world,” Daily Yomiuri, 9 December 2003 “Democracy vs. GDP growth,” Japan Times, 21 December 2003 “U.N. voice for ‘civil society’,” Japan Times, 28 December 2003 “2003: worst and best times for U.N.” (with David Malone), Japan Times, 8 January 2004 “Sustained growth needs right recipe,” Australian Financial Review, 12 January 2004 “How the Iraq war harmed the UN,” The Age (Melbourne), 15 January 2004 “Hope for Indo-Pakistani peace,” Japan Times, 17 January 2004 “Crucial opportunity for India and Pakistan,” Australian, 19 January 2004 “Can cricket diplomacy help South Asia?” Daily Yomiuri, 27 February 2004 “How the legitimacy of US goals has been undermined by its war on Iraq,” Canberra

Times, 11 March 2004 “Neighbours don diplomatic pads,” Australian, 12 March 2004 “India's nukes pose paradox for nonproliferation regime,” Japan Times, 14 March 2004 “Rectifying NGO practices: New coalitions of the willing seek change,” Japan Times, 21 March 2004 “Status of three of the world’s de facto nuclear powers raises difficult questions,” Canberra

Times, 25 March 2004 “The Iraq war in retrospect,” Japan Times, 28 March 2004 “Iraq one year on: counting the cost to the US, UK and UN,” Canberra Times, 5 April 2004


“U.N. should work better to secure global peace” Daily Yomiuri, 6 April 2004 “India girds for world’s biggest tamasha,” Japan Times, 11 April 2004 “Stepping in to protect oppressed people,” Canberra Times, 12 April 2004 “Don't prejudge U.N. over Iraq oil-for-food scandal,” Daily Yomiuri, 3 May 2004 “India, where Islam isn’t associated with terrorism,” Canberra Times, 5 May 2004 “Beware the rush to condemn the UN,” The Age, May 8, 2004 “Urgent need to clean up the mess in Iraq,” Canberra Times, 13 May 2004 “New jailers, same prison?,” Japan Times, 15 May 2004 “Coalition must learn to love India's poor a little less,” Australian Financial Review, 18 May 2004 “India: a defeat for the government, a victory for democracy,” Japan Times, 20 May 2004 “Gandhi's choice: refuse throne and secure rule,” Canberra Times, 27 May 2004 “Gandhi grew stronger by stepping back,” Japan Times, 31 May 2004 “How to build a better brains trust,” Globe and Mail, 3 June 2004 “New summit group needed to tackle global problems,” Canberra Times, 9 June 2004 “Time is ripe to establish G-20,” Japan Times, 12 June 2004 “Iraq needs better security, legitimacy, economy,” Daily Yomiuri, 15 June 2004 “Iraq’s recovery phase can now begin in earnest,” Canberra Times, 18 June 2004 “Popular return of a dynasty,” Japan Times, 20 June 2004 “The business of conflict,” Globe and Mail, 9 July 2004 “Going global with civic virtues,” Japan Times, 19 July 2004 “Business has key role in peace and security for long-term profits,” Canberra Times, 20 July 2004 “Business world can help secure peace as well as undermine it,” Daily Yomiuri, 23 July 2004


“Ein Sicherheitstrat für die Realität,” die tageszeitung (Berlin), 2 August 2004 “Global nuclear ‘outbreak’ threatens fragile status quo,” Canberra Times, 6 August 2004 “On balance, charges do have some merit,” Canberra Times, 12 August 2004 “Challenging Canberra’s march to war,” Japan Times, 16 August 2004 “A refitted Security Council,” Japan Times, 29 August 2004 “Western medicine is no cure for Darfur’s ills,” Australian Financial Review, 31 August 2004 “Save us from the humanitarians for war,” Daily Yomiuri, 9 September 2004 “Gathering Nuclear Crisis Calls for a Drastic Policy Overhaul,” YaleGlobal Online, 10 September 2004 reprinted as “The case for total disarmament,” in South China Morning Post,

14 September 2004 reprinted as “Nuclear heat: A disaster waiting to happen,” in Khaleej Times, 14

September 2004 “Not so brave new world: Three years after 9/11, and the world still lives in fear of terrorism,” Canberra Times, 11 September 2004 “Why we shouldn't rush to war over Darfur,” Globe and Mail, 11 September 2004 “Humanisten im Krieg,” die tageszeitung (Berlin), 27 September 2004 “Choosing how to intervene,” Japan Times, 10 October 2004 “In Asia lies the cancer of corruption,” Daily Yomiuri, 14 October 2004 “Japans neue Rolle in der Weltpolitik” (with Martina Timmermann), Frankfurter

Rundschau, 16 October 2004 “Did Kosovo illuminate Iraq?,” Japan Times, 17 October 2004 “Calling a halt to the cancer of corruption,” Canberra Times, 22 October 2004 “How one council can speak for the world,” Japan Times, 3 November 2004 “Time to rethink UN security council,” Canberra Times, 15 November 2004 “… elections come second,” Globe and Mail, 25 November 2004


“Elections can help, hurt democracy,” Daily Yomiuri, 26 November 2004 “Knives out for Kofi Annan,” Japan Times, 4 December 2004 “Cheerleaders for war round on the UN,” Canberra Times, 14 December 2004 “Offensive Ablenkungsmanöver,” die tageszeitung (Berlin), 14 December 2004 “U.N. needs right tools to continue PKOs,” Daily Yomiuri, 19 December 2004 “Natural disaster as the spur to regional cooperation,” Daily Yomiuri, 6 January 2005 “When Tragedy Trumps Borders,” YaleGlobal Online, 10 January 2005 reprinted in Asian Age, 12 January 2005 reprinted in Outlook India, 12 January 2005 reprinted in Jakarta Post, 13 January 2005 reprinted in Daily Times (Pakistan), 15 January 2005 “In the wake of the waves: a new era of regional co-operation,” Globe and Mail, 11 January 2005 “Looking up after bleak year,” Japan Times, 30 January 2005 “Civil society bodies have vital peace role,” Daily Yomiuri, 8 February 2005 “Reshaping the concept of shared responsibility for global security,” Canberra Times, 10 February 2005 “RHETORIC VS. THE RECORD: Freedom, when it suits U.S.,” Japan Times, 12 February 2005 “World watches and waits for Washington's next move,” Canberra Times, 18 February 2005 “U.N. reformers likely to overcome hurdles,” Daily Yomiuri, 7 March 2005 “Slaying a few of the UN myths,” Globe and Mail, 8 March 2005 “The Problem at the UN is not national quotas” International Herald Tribune, 12 March 2005 “Getting what you vote for: The deep end of Indian state democracy,” Japan Times, 13 March 2005 “The U.N.’s ‘under-achievers’,” Japan Times, 22 March 2005


reprinted as “Asian leaders rare at top U.N. posts,” Korea Herald, 24 March 2005

“A visa denied: India doesn't need lessons from America” International Herald Tribune, 29 March 2005 “Intervention based on rules,” Japan Times, 10 April 2005 “New rules for the new global game,” Canberra Times, 11 April 2005 “The dragon and the elephant,” Daily Yomiuri, 19 April 2005 “Enhancing U.N. legitimacy,” Japan Times, 29 April 2005 “Elephant and dragon's pas de deux marks a historic watershed,” Canberra Times, 3 May 2005 “Weaknesses of nuclear nonproliferation regime,” Daily Yomiuri, 9 May 2005 “Design for sustaining peace,” Japan Times, 10 May 2005 “Putting building blocks in place for peace will require new architecture,” Canberra Times, 16 May 2005 “The anomalies killing nonproliferation” International Herald Tribune, 18 May 2005 “The United Nations: Security Council Reform through Asian eyes” International Herald

Tribune, 28–29 May 2005 “Peer review of human rights,” Japan Times, 29 May 2005 “Use of force and the responsibility to protect”, Hindu, 1 June 2005 “The UN at 60: The place where humanity’s divisions meet” International Herald Tribune, 25–26 June 2005 “Security and human health,” Japan Times, 4 July 2005 “Absolute security neither desirable nor possible,” Canberra Times, 29 July 2005 “Balancing security and rights,” Japan Times, 30 July 2005 “NPT regime in crisis after failed N.Y. confab,” Daily Yomiuri, 1 August 2005 “A tale of two non-proliferation conferences,” Canberra Times, 8 August 2005


“Asian chance after Annan,” Japan Times, 22 August 2005 “East Timor: When peace and justice collide” International Herald Tribune, 31 August 2005 “An all but impossible mission,” The Nation (Bangkok), 31 August 2005 “The hard task of negotiating UN reform is becoming even more urgent,” Canberra Times, 5 September 2005 “Aussies adjust the moorings,” Japan Times, 11 September 2005 “Katrina's aftermath: It takes global organization to confront global threats” (with Janos Bogardi and Ralph Daley), Globe and Mail, 13 September 2005 “Putting the U.N. and Katrina in context” (with Janos Bogardi and Ralph Daley), Daily

Yomiuri, 15 September 2005 “Japan emerging as a more normal democracy,” Hindu, 17 September 2005 “Global problems demand a multilateral approach” (with Janos Bogardi and Ralph Daley), Canberra Times, 19 September 2005 “The United Nations summit: a San Francisco or an Einstein moment?,” Canberra Times, 26 September 2005 “Japan, the land of the rising friendship for India,” Daily News and Analysis (Mumbai), 27 September 2005 “U.N.’s Einstein moment,” Japan Times, 3 October 2005 “From national security to human security,” Japan Times, 13 October 2005 “National security? It's time to think about human security,” Globe and Mail, 17 October 2005 “Report to UN highlights need to define national security in human terms,” Canberra

Times, 17 October 2005 “For East Timor, reconciliation is preferable to justice,” Canberra Times, 7 November 2005 “Tyrants under the gun: The reduction of impunity,” Japan Times, 10 November 2005 “Desertification on the march” (with Zafar Adeel) Japan Times, 24 November 2005 “U.S.-India nuclear accord a win-win outcome for all,” Daily Yomiuri, 27 November 2005


“Judicial romanticism, moral imperialism and judicial colonialism,” Canberra Times, 25 November 2005 “Reversing desertification the moral duty of the international community” (with Zafar Adeel) Canberra Times, 19 December 2005 “Peacebuilding architecture a step forward for U.N.,” Daily Yomiuri, 27 December 2005 “Belling the casteism cat,” Daily News and Analysis, 10 January 2006 “A new UN platform for peace-building efforts,” Canberra Times, 17 January 2006 “Integrity: missing in action” (with Charles Sampford), Globe and Mail, 20 January 2006 “Why America needs the U.N.,” Japan Times, 26 January 2006 “In selecting new U.N. secretary general, leadership most important factor,” Daily Yomiuri, 3 February 2006 “Scapegoating the United Nations would erode its legitimacy,” Canberra Times, 6 February 2006 “2005 peace report: At least no new wars began,” Japan Times, 16 February 2006 “An opportunity for India to be on the winning side,” Canberra Times, 2 March 2006 “Action must be taken against peacekeeper sexual predators,” Daily Yomiuri, 6 March 2006 “South Asia should unite behind one of its own,” Hindu, 8 April 2006 “Moving beyond the NPT paradigm,” Daily Yomiuri, 8 April 2006 “U.N., U.S. should not work at cross-purposes,” Daily Yomiuri, 1 May 2006 “North-South fault line in global politics,” Japan Times, 10 May 2006 “Quotas on caste are damaging Indian enterprise,” Financial Times, 19 May 2006 “Crying wolf diminished the West's credibility,” Canberra Times, 24 May 2006 “East Timor crisis due to multiple defense forces,” Daily Yomiuri, 31 May 2006 “UN is still the world’s best hope for peace,” Canberra Times, 15 June 2006 “East Timor ignored Australia’s guidance,” Canberra Times, 20 June 2006


“Exit Annan, enter an Asian?,” Daily News and Analysis, 25 June 2006 “Bush's war in Iraq has become a burden for the West,” The Record (Kitchener, Ontario), 8 July 2006 “It's time, now, to end the travesty that is Guantanamo Bay,” Canberra Times, 11 July 2006 “Don’t be too easily appeased,” Australian, 13 July 2006 “Guantanamo: shame on U.S.,” Japan Times, 13 July 2006 “A rocky road to post-conflict democracy,” Daily Yomiuri, 14 July 2006 “Containing chemical weapons,” Japan Times, 24 July 2006 “An inhumane solution,” Daily News and Analysis, 26 July 2006 “Getting tough on terrorism,” Japan Times, 29 July 2006 “What passing bells for those who die as U.N. peacekeepers?” Hindu, 3 August 2006 “Peacekeepers dying for abstract principle of global duty,” Canberra Times, 3 August 2006 “Bringing peace to Lebanon,” Japan Times, 5 August 2006 “Chemical weapons treaty model for world security,” Canberra Times, 14 August 2006 “Intelligence works better than bullets,” Japan Times, 16 August 2006 “If this effort is success, Lord, grant me failure,” Canberra Times, 21 August 2006 “When an umpire’s decision is fatal,” Australian, 29 August 2006 “Lebanon war: An exercise in futility,” Daily Yomiuri, 29 August 2006 “A war that was won by not losing, and lost by not winning,” Canberra Times, 30 August 2006 “Is Peacekeeping good for India?” (with Dipankar Banerjee), Indian Express, 1 September 2006 “Both sides must learn compromise if Lebanon is to survive intact,” Canberra Times, 11 September 2006 “Weighing Israel’s way of war,” Japan Times, 18 September 2006


“India making an important contribution to PKOs” (with Dipankar Banerjee), Daily

Yomiuri, 23 September 2006 “What’s in store for Thailand,” Japan Times, 25 September 2006 “Drivers of development change, but cars just the same,” Canberra Times, 27 September 2006 “Has the best man won at the UN?,” Canberra Times, 7 October 2006 “A lack of moral clarity,” Toronto Star, 11 October 2006 “Nuclear bombs: Is the nuclear nonproliferation deal broken?” Globe and Mail, 11 October 2006 “N-weapons and moral clarity – or lack thereof,” Daily Yomiuri, 12 October 2006 “Nuclear treaty just doesn’t work,” Australian Financial Review, 16 October 2006 “Options limited in weapons race,” Record (Kitchener), 17 October 2006 “The logic is clear – condemn nuclear weapons for all,” Canberra Times, 17 October 2006 “U.N. secretary general selection lacks insight,” Daily Yomiuri, 7 November 2006 “Trudeaumania revisited” Hindu, 14 November 2006 “Know the goals of military intervention,” Japan Times, 20 November 2006 “Globalisation trips on its own feat,” Canberra Times, 4 December 2006 “The quality of India’s higher education” Hindu, 8 December 2006 “India’s emergence shows shift in power,” Daily Yomiuri, 12 December 2006 “Singh’s Japan visit to lift ties,” Canberra Times, 13 December 2006 “Asia’s strategic triangle,” Daily News and Analysis, 13 December 2006 “What Annan has contributed to world,” Daily Yomiuri, 26 December 2006 “Annan’s mixed legacy” Globe and Mail, 2 January 2007 “Crisis in multilateral trade,” Japan Times, 12 January 2007


“Globalisation and trade for development” Hindu, 12 January 2007 “India’s dysfunctional police” Hindu, 26 January 2007 “India, Russia keen to rebuild cozy relationship,” Daily Yomiuri, 1 February 2007 “Climate change and global leadership” (with Colin Bradford), Hindu, 10 February 2007 reprinted as “World bodies must re-align to meet climate crisis,” Record (Kitchener, Ontario), 15 February 2007 “Canada stood up to the US, unlike our leaders over Hicks,” Canberra Times, 12 February 2007 “Canada beats Australia in protecting citizens,” Daily Yomiuri, 22 February 2007 “Opening western minds to international crosswinds” Hindu, 3 March 2007 “Labor taps mood for change,” Canberra Times, 23 March 2007 “As they sow, so shall they reap” Hindu, 9 April 2007

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