Trump’s Board of Peace: Multilateralism and India’s Strategic Choices

In January 2026, the United States took two decisions that together signal a turning point in the evolution of post-World War global governance. The first was the leaked release of the Charter of the Board of Peace (BoP). The second was a presidential directive withdrawing or sharply reducing US engagement with a wide range of international organisations, including several core United Nations bodies. Individually, each move could be interpreted as another episode in Washington’s—especially President Trump’s—long-running frustration with multilateral institutions (Kumar Citation2020). In combination, these dynamics indicate something more consequential: the emergence of a parallel architecture for peace, one that bypasses universal rules in favour of selective, deal-based arrangements.