Ramesh Thakur

On February 18, SKY News UK trumpeted that ‘Lockdown is working! COVID-19 infection rate plummets in England’. Yet, as Figure 1 shows, Sweden with voluntary social distancing guidelines experienced an...

• Ramesh Thakur, David Redman |
• May 2021 |
• Strategic Analysis

The world is witnessing a geopolitical shift from the North Atlantic to the Indo–Pacific region. US power is in relative decline with a steady build-up of Chinese power, wealth and...

• Ramesh Thakur, Ashok Sharma |
• March 2018 |
• Strategic Analysis

The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme, released on November 8, 2011, has effectively raised the global threat level. The agency...

• Ramesh Thakur |
• March 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

Rajiv Nayan's article is both important and interesting. It is important because nuclear weapons pose a threat to humanity and the planet that in magnitude, severity and immediacy is the...

• Ramesh Thakur |
• January 2012 |
• Strategic Analysis

To paraphrase the mantra of realism—international politics, like all politics, is a struggle for normative ascendancy: the establishment and maintenance of the dominant normative architecture of international order created and...

• Ramesh Thakur |
• November 2011 |
• Strategic Analysis