Bøger af Ramesh Thakur

The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. Australia joined in the war, while Canada refused to. Australia, Canada, and Iraq is a collection of essays by world leaders and esteemed academics that offers a fresh review of the war and the critical Australian and Canadian decisions regarding it.

This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates with respect to the doctrine both before and after its adoption in 2005; contrasting state attitudes to international military intervention; and what takes place after intervention.

The author, former senior vice-rector of the United Nations University and UN assistant secretary general, is described as one of the intellectual godfathers of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This title brings together his opinion articles from several newspapers in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan, and the "International Herald Tribune".

The Government and Politics of India provides a clear and concise account of the contemporary Indian political system. Special attention is devoted to caste, religion and regionalism in Indian society and to the nature of democratic politics in relation to Third World development.