Publications

• Thakur, R 2020, Breaking through the Global Politics of Climate Change Policy, pp. 51-71.
• Thakur, R 2019, 'Global Justice and National Interests: How R2P Reconciles the Two Agendas on Atrocity Crimes', Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 411-434.
• Thakur, R 2019, Reviewing the Responsibility to Protect: Origins, Implementation and Controversies, Routledge, London.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Peacebuilding and the Responsibility to Rebuild', Asian International Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1-12pp.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Nuclear turbulence in the age of trump', Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 105-128.
• Thakur, R & Andrew F, C 2018, 'The Brics in the Evolving Architecture of Global Governance', in (ed.), International Organisation and Global Governance, Routledge, United States of America, pp. 283-299.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Looking Back to Look Ahead', Pathways to Peace and Security, vol. 1, no. 54, pp. 92-103.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect', in Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 461-478.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Bifurcated Global Nuclear Order', in Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (ed.), The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2017, Oxford University Press, New York, United States.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Nuclear Weapons and the Rules-Based Global Multilateral Order', in Diana Ayton-Shenker (ed.), A New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices and Pathways of the International Community, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., Maryland, USA, pp. 245-256.
• Thakur, R & Sharma, A 2018, 'India in Australia's strategic framing in the indo-pacific', Strategic Analysis: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 69-83.
• Thakur, R 2018, 'Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: the wrong side of history, geography, legality, morality, and humanity', Journal of Peace and Nuclear, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 11-31.
• Thakur, R 2017, 'The Nuclear Ban Treaty: Recasting a Normative Framework for Disarmament', The Washington Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 71-95.
• Thakur, R 2017, 'Choosing the Ninth United Nations Secretary-General: Looking Back, Looking Ahead', Global Governance, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
• Thakur, R 2017, 'Australia, India and Global Nuclear Order', in Mark Beeson and Shahar Hamerri (ed.), Navigating the new international disorder: Australia in world affairs 2011 - 2015, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 208-223pp.
• Thakur, R 2017, The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect, 2nd. Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'Balancing Competing Interests and Values: Drone Strikes as National Policy but International Crime?', in Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (ed.), The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 171-200.
• Bose, S & Thakur, R 2016, 'The UN Secretary-General and the Forgotten Third R2P Responsibility', Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 8, pp. 343-365.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'The Ethical Imperatives and Means to Nuclear Peace', Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 288-295.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'Harnessing multilateral orders to India's interests and principles', in Anirban Ganguly, Vijay Chauthaiwale and Uttam Kumar Sinha (ed.), The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India's Foreign Policy, Wisdom Tree, New Delhi, pp. 11-20.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'Ethics, International Affairs and Western Double Standards', Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 370-377.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'High-Level Panels', in Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd & Ian Johnstone (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press, United States of America, pp. 859-880pp.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'Atrocity Crimes', in Amitav Acharya (ed.), Why Govern? Rethinking Demand and Progress in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 138-156.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'The Responsibility to Protect at 15', International Affairs, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 415-434pp.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'R2P and the interplay between policy and norms in a shifting global order', in Kai Michael Kenkel, Philip Cunliffe (ed.), Brazil as a Rising Power, Routledge, Oxon, New York, pp. 157-177.
• Langmore, J & Thakur, R 2016, 'The Elected but Neglected Security Council Members', The Washington Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 99-114.
• Thakur, R 2016, 'Rwanda, Kosovo, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty', in Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The Responsibility to Protect, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 94-113.
• Sampford, C & Thakur, R, eds, 2015, Institutional Supports for the International Rule of Law, Routledge, Abingdon and New York.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'Reconfiguring the UN System of Collective Security', in Marc Weller (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law, Oxford University Press, oxford and New York, pp. 179-201.
• Thakur, R 2015, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, Routledge, Abingdon and New York.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'R2P's 'Structural' Problems: A Response to Roland Paris', International Peacekeeping, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 11-25pp.
• Sampford, C & Thakur, R 2015, 'From the Right to Persecute to the Responsibility to Protect: Feuerbachian Inversions of Rights and Responsibilities in State-Citizen Relations', in R Thakur, W.Maley (ed.), Theorising the Responsibility to Protect, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 38-58.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'The Development and Evolution of R2P as International Policy', Global Policy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 190-200.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'With the Benefit of Hindsight: Chronicling Afghanistan Errors', in Jack Cunningham & William Maley (ed.), Australia and Canada in Afghanistan: Perspectives on a Mission, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Cananda, pp. 220-244.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'Three Minutes to Midnight: Is the World Sleepwalking into a Nuclear Disaster?', Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies (CASS) journal, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 121-139.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'The shock of the Iraq war, and awe at the lingering effects of the folly', in R Thakur, J Cunningham (ed.), Australia, Canada, and Iraq: perspectives on an invasion, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 77-99.
• Cunningham, J & Thakur, R 2015, 'Introduction', in R Thakur, J Cunningham (ed.), Australia, Canada, and Iraq: perspectives on an invasion, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 11-21.
• Thakur, R & Cunningham, J, eds, 2015, Australia, Canada, and Iraq: Perspectives on an Invasion, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'Drone strikes and human rights: Balancing national security, individual rights and international justice', in Patrick Keyzer, Vesselin Popovski and Charles Sampford (ed.), Access to International Justice, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 73-96.
• Thakur, R 2015, 'International Criminal Justice: At the Vortex of Power, Norms and a Shifting Global Order', in C Sampford, R Thakur (ed.), Institutional Supports for the International Rule of Law, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 30-58.
• Maley, W & Thakur, R 2015, Introduction: theorising global responsibilities, in Ramesh Thakur and William Maley (eds), Theorising the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.3-15
• Thakur, R & Maley, W, eds, 2015, Theorising the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• Thakur, R 2014, 'Syria and the Responsibility to Protect', E-International Relations: Edited Collections, vol. Into the Eleventh Hour, pp. 38-42.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'The inconsequential gains and lasting insecurities of India's nuclear weaponization', International Affairs, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 1101-1124.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'How representative are brics?', Third World Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 1791-1808.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'The United States and the Rule of Law in a Polycentric World', Global Policy, vol. November 2014.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear Disarmament', in Ramesh Thakur & Maria Rost Rublee (ed.), Nuclear Politics - Volume Four: Nuclear Disarmament and Alternative Voices on Nuclear Issues, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain, pp. 55-62.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'If You Want Non-Proliferation, Prepare for Disarmament', in Ramesh Thakur & Maria Rost Rublee (ed.), Nuclear Politics - Volume Four: Nuclear Disarmament and Alternative Voices on Nuclear Issues, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain, pp. 63-69.
• Thakur, R & Rublee, M, eds, 2014, Nuclear Politics - Volume One: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain.
• Thakur, R & Rublee, M, eds, 2014, Nuclear Politics - Volume Two: Nuclear Proliferation, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'Israel's Serial Gaza Offensives Are Offensive', E-International Relations: Edited Collections.
• Cooper, A & Thakur, R 2014, 'The BRICS in the New Global Economic Geography', in Thomas G Weiss & Rorden Wilkinson (ed.), International Organization and Global Governance, Routledge, Great Britain, pp. 265-278.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'Stepping Stones to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World', in Ramesh Thakur & Maria Rost Rublee (ed.), Nuclear Politics - Volume One: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain, pp. 153-177.
• Thakur, R & Rublee, M, eds, 2014, Nuclear Politics - Volume Four: Nuclear Disarmament and Alternative Voices on Nuclear Issues, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain.
• Thakur, R & Rublee, M, eds, 2014, Nuclear Politics - Volume Three: Nuclear Nonproliferation, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'The South Asian Nuclear Challenge', in Ramesh Thakur & Maria Rost Rublee (ed.), Nuclear Politics - Volume Two: Nuclear Proliferation, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain, pp. 281-308.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'NPT Regime Change: Has the Good Become the Enemy of the Best?', in Ramesh Thakur & Maria Rost Rublee (ed.), Nuclear Politics - Volume One: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, SAGE Publications Inc., Great Britain, pp. 393-416.
• Thakur, R 2014, 'Humanitarianism, Democracy and Intervention: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect', in Amin Saikal, Amitav Acharya (ed.), Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia: Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule After the Arab Spring, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, London, UK and New York, USA, pp. 65-87.
• Weiss, T & Thakur, R 2014, 'The United Nations meets the twenty-first century: confronting the challenges of global governance', in Manfred B. Steger, Paul Battersby & Joseph M. Siracusa (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Globalization, SAGE Publications, London, UK, pp. 489-504.
• Thakur, R, Job, B, Serrano, M et al 2014, 'The next phase in the consolidation and expansion of global governance', Global Governance, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-4.
• Cooper, A F and Thakur, R 2014 “The BRICS in the New Global Economic Geography,” in Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, eds., International Organization and Global Governance (London: Routledge), pp. 265–278.
• Thakur, R 2014 “Humanitarianism, Democracy and Intervention: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect,” in Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya, eds., Democracy and Reform in the Middle East: Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule after the Arab Spring (London: I.B. Tauris), pp. 65–87.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'R2P after Libya and Syria: Engaging Emerging Powers', The Washington Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 61-76.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Protection gaps for civilian victims of political violence', South African Journal of International Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 321-338.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Follow the yellowcake road: Balancing Australia's national interests against international anti-nuclear interests', International Affairs, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 943-961.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Using a Framework to Evaluate Peace Operations: the role of the United Nations', in Daniel Druckman and Paul F. Diehl (ed.), Peace Operation Success: A Comparative Analysis, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 161-179.
• Cooper, A & Thakur, R 2013, The Group of Twenty (G20), Routledge, New York, USA.
• Evans, G, Thakur, R & Pape, R 2013, 'Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect', International Security, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 199-207.
• Thakur, R & Weiss, T 2013, 'Global Law and Global Governance: The UN's Role in Filling Gaps', in M. Cherif Bassiouni, Joanna Gomula, Paolo Mengozzi, John G. Merrils, Rafael Niet (ed.), The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence: Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 571-592.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Nuclear Weapons: A Progress Report', Security Challenges, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 11-20.
• Thakur, R, Cooper, A & Heine, J, eds, 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'The Responsibility to Protect: Retrospect and Prospect', in Charles Sampford, Ramesh Thakur (ed.), Responsibility to protect and sovereignty, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, England, pp. 189-212.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Prisoners or Masters of Destiny?', in Adil Najam and Moeed Yusuf (ed.), South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures, Anthem Press, London, UK and New York, USA, pp. 11-22.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'A Civil Libertarian's Lament for a Lost Decade of Human Rights', in Rowena Maguire, Bridget Lewis and Charles Sampford (ed.), Shifting Global Powers and International Law: Challenges and Opportunities, Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 173-192.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'Australia's Engagement with Asia: Strategic or Transactional?', India Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 335-350.
• Thakur, R & Sampford, C, eds, 2013, Responsibility to Protect and Sovereignty, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, England.
• Thakur, R 2013, 'The Use of International Force to Prevent or Halt Atrocities: From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect', in Dinah Shelton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 815-840.
• Cooper, AF, Heine, J and Thakur, R 2013 "Introduction: The Challenges of 21st-Century Diplomacy,” in Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 1–31.
• Evans, G and Thakur, R 2013 “Correspondence: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect,” International Security 37:4 (Spring), pp. 199–207.
• Page, J and Thakur, R 2013 “Nuclear Weapons: The Opportunity Costs,” APLN/CNND Policy Brief No. 1 (June).
• Thakur, R 2013 "Australia’s Engagement with Asia: Strategic or Transactional?” India Quarterly 69:4 (October–December), pp. 335–350.
• Thakur, R 2013 “A Civil Libertarian’s Lament for a Lost Decade of Human Rights,” in Rowena Maguire, Bridget Lewis and Charles Sampford, eds, Shifting Global Powers and International Law: Challenges and Opportunities (London: Routledge), pp. 173–92.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Follow the Yellowcake Road: Balancing Australia’s Security, Commercial and Bilateral National Interests against International Anti-Nuclear Interests,” International Affairs 89:4 (July), pp. 943–961.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Is Australia Serious about Asia?” Global Brief 12 (Winter), pp. 50–55.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Nuclear Weapons: A Progress Report,” Security Challenges 9:4 (Summer), pp. 11–20.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Prisoners or Masters of Destiny?” in Adil Najam and Moeed Yusuf, eds. South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures (London: Anthem Press), pp. 11–21.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Protection Gaps for Civilian Victims of Political Violence,” South African Journal of International Affairs 20:3 (December 2013), pp. 321–338.
• Thakur, R 2013 “R2P after Libya and Syria: Engaging Emerging Powers,” The Washington Quarterly 36:2 (Spring), pp. 61–76.
• Thakur, R 2013 “The G20 versus the UN: Rival Development Forums?” Funds Briefing 3 ((New York: Graduate Center, City University of New York, April).
• Thakur, R 2013 “The Global Governance Architecture of Nuclear Security,” Policy Analysis Brief (Muscatine, Iowa: Stanley Foundation, March).
• Thakur, R 2013 “The Responsibility to Protect: Retrospect and Prospect,” in Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Responsibility to Protect and Sovereignty (London: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 189–212.
• Thakur, R 2013 “The Use of International Force to Prevent or Halt Atrocities: From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect,” in Dinah Shelton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 815–840.
• Thakur, R 2013 “Using a Framework to Evaluate Peace Operations: The Role of the United Nations,” in Daniel Druckman and Paul F. Diehl, eds., Peace Operation Success: A Comparative Analysis (Leiden:Martinus Nijhoff), pp. 161–79.
• Thakur, R 2013 “What Did India Gain by Getting the Bomb?” APLN/CNND Policy Brief No. 7 (November).
• Thakur, R 2013, 'A Balance of Interests', in Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 70-87.
• Thakur, R and Evans, G 2013, Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play, CNND, Canberra, Canberra.
• Thakur, R and Weiss, TG 2013 “Global Law and Global Governance: The UN’s Role in Filling Gaps,” in M. Cherif Bassiouni, Joanna Gomula, Paolo Mengozzi, John G. Merrills, Rafael Nieto Navia, Anna Oriolo, William Schabas, and Anna Vigorito, eds., The Global Community—Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence. Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 571–592
• Thakur, R, Cooper, A & Heine, J 2013, 'Introduction: The Challenges of 21st-Century Diplomacy', in Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-31.
• Thakur, R, Breakey, H, Francis, A et al. 2012, Enhancing Protection Capacity: A Policy Guide, Griffith University, Queensland.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'Law, Legitimacy and the United Nations', in Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer & Vesselin Popovski (ed.), Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs, Oxford University Press, New York USA, pp. 45-71.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'From the Millennium to Global Development Goals', in Rorden Wilkinson and David Hulme (ed.), The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: Global development after 2015, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon United Kingdom, pp. 54-83.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect', European Journal of International Law, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 284-289.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'Australia and the United Nations', AIIA Policy Commentary (Australian Institute of International Affairs), pp. 19-26.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'To stop Iran getting the bomb, must we learn to live with its nuclear capability?', Strategic Analysis: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 328-334.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'Comment on 'The Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Paradigm and India'', Strategic Analysis: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 30-31.
• Thakur, R 2012, 'Using a Framework to Evaluate Peace Operations: The Role of the United Nations', Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 16, no. 3-4, pp. 353-371.
• Thakur, R 2012 "International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect” (Review Essay), European Journal of International Law 23:1 (March), pp. 284–289.
• Thakur, R 2012 “A Changing Chessboard: The New Great Game in Afghanistan,” Global Asia 7:4 (Winter), pp. 87–91.
• Thakur, R 2012 “Australia and the United Nations,” in Melissa Conley Tyler, ed., Australia and the UN Security Council (Canberra: Australian Institute of International Affairs, AIIA Policy Commentary), pp. 19–26.
• Thakur, R 2012 “Emerging Powers and the Responsibility to Protect after Libya,” NUPI Policy Brief 15 (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, December).
• Thakur, R 2012 “From the Millennium to Global Development Goals,” in Rorden Wilkinson and David Hulme, eds., The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: Global Development after 2015 (London: Routledge), pp. 54–83.
• Thakur, R 2012 “Law, Legitimacy, and the United Nations,” in Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer and Vesselin Popovski, eds., Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 45–71.
• Thakur, R 2012 “Responsibility to Protect: Libya as a Case Study,” in Keith Brent, ed., Air Power and Coercive Diplomacy (Canberra: Air Power Development Centre), pp. 43–53.
• Thakur, R 2012 “The World’s Responsibility to Protect Libyans,” in Nayan Chanda and Susan Froetschel, ed., A World Connected: Globalization in the 21st Century (New Haven CT: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization), pp. 397–401.
• Thakur, R 2012 “United Nations,” in David Coates, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press), Vol II, pp. 388–96.
• Thakur, R 2012 “Using a Framework to Evaluate Peace Operations: The Role of the United Nations,” Journal of International Peacekeeping vol. 16, pp. 354–372.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'India and the United Nations', Strategic Analysis: Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 898-905.
• Thakur, R & Heine, J 2011, 'Conclusions: A Bumpy Ride to Globalisation, Google and Jihad', in Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), The Dark Side of Globalisation, United Nations University Press, Japan, pp. 266-281.
• Thakur, R & Heine, J 2011, 'Introduction: Globalisation and Transnational Uncivil Society', in Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), The Dark Side of Globalisation, United Nations University Press, Japan, pp. 1-16.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'The United Nations and the United States: Rebalancing Power and Authority for International Security', Russia in Global Affairs, no. 4.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'The Responsibility to Protect: A Forward-looking Agenda', in Ramesh Thakur, Walter Kemp and Vesselin Popovski (ed.), Blood and Borders: The Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of the Kin-State, United Nations University Press, Tokyo Japan, pp. 10-27.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'Libya and the Responsibility to Protect: Between Opportunistic Humanitarianism and Value-Free Pragmatism', Security Challenges, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 13-25.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'The Responsibility to protect and the North-South Divide', in Sanford R Silverburg (ed.), International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Developments, Westview Press, Boulder CO USA, pp. 32-47.
• Thakur, R 2011, The People vs. the State: Reflections on UN Authority, US Power and the Responsibility to Protect, United Nations University Press, Tokyo Japan.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'Delinking Destiny from Geography The Changing Balance of India-Pakistan Relations', India Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 197-212.
• Heine, J & Thakur, R 2011, 'Globalisation and Uncivil Society', Jindal Journal of International Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 164-181.
• Kemp, W, Popovski, V & Thakur, R, eds, 2011, Blood and Borders: The Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of the Kin-State, United Nations University Press, Tokyo Japan.
• Thakur, R 2011, 'Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations: Global Governance Venue or Actor?', in James P Muldoon, JaAnn Fagot Aviel, Richard Reitano and Earl Sullivan (ed.), The New Dynamics of Multilateralism: Diplomacy, International Organisations, and Global Governance, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 249-65.
• Thakur, R 2010, The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London.
• Thakur, R 2010, 'Law, Legitimacy and United Nations', Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
• Thakur, R 2010, 'Canada and India', in Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker (ed.), Canada among nations 2009-2010, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal Canada, pp. 151-158.
• Thakur, R & Heine, J 2010, 'Human rights and the state in Latin America', in Mónica Serrano and Vesselin Popovski (ed.), Human rights regimes in the Americas, United Nations University Press, Tokyo Japan, pp. 114-132.
• Thakur, R 2010, 'China in a Shifting Asian and Global Order', USI Journal, vol. 140, no. 580, pp. 168-177.
• Thakur, R & Weiss, T 2010, Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
• Chin, G & Thakur, R 2010, 'Will China Change the Rules of Global Order?', The Washington Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 119-138.
• Thakur, R & Weiss, T 2009, 'Framing Global Governance, Five Gaps', in Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (ed.), The global community: Yearbook of international law and jurisprudence 2008 Volume 1, Oxford University Press, New York United States of America, pp. 77-98.
• Thakur, R 2009, 'NPT regime change: Has the good become the enemy of the best?', in Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss (ed.), The United Nations and Nuclear Orders, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 273-297.
• Thakur, R, Boulden, J & Weiss, T 2009, 'The United Nations and Nuclear Orders: Context, Foundations, Actors, Tools, and Future Prospects', in Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss (ed.), The United Nations and Nuclear Orders, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 1-27.
• Thakur, R & Weiss, T 2009, 'United Nations "policy": An argument with three illustrations', International Studies Perspectives, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 18-35.
• Thakur, R & Weiss, T 2009, 'R2P: From Idea to Norm - and Action?', Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22-53.
• Thakur, R 2009, 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow', in David Horner, Peter Londey and Jean Bou (ed.), Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne Australia, pp. 255-272, 310-312.
• Thakur, R, Boulden, J & Weiss, T, eds, 2009, The United Nations and Nuclear Orders, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.
• Thakur, R, Aoi, C & de Coning, C 2008, 'Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping', in Andrea Ricci (ed.), From early warning to early action? The debate on the enhancement of the EU's crisis response capability continues, European Commission, Luxembourg, pp. 167-176.
• Lewis, M, Sampford, C & Thakur, R 2008, 'Introduction: Re-envisioning sovereignty: the end of westphalia?', in Trudy Jacobsen, Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), Re-envisioning sovereignty: the end of Westphalia?, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot England, pp. 1-15.
• Thakur, R 2008, 'Conclusion: National Diplomacy and Global Governance', in Andrew F. Cooper, Brian Hocking and William Maley (ed.), Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart?, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, pp. 289-299.
• Thakur, R & Popovski, V 2008, 'The Responsibility to Protect and Prosecute: The Parallel Erosion of Sovereignty and Impunity', in Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (ed.), The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2007, Oxford University Press, New York USA, pp. 39-61.
• Thakur, R, Jacobsen, T & Sampford, C 2008, 'Introduction', in Trudy Jacobsen, Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur (ed.), Re-envisioning sovereignty: the end of Westphalia?, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot England.
• Jacobsen, T, Sampford, C & Thakur, R, eds, 2008, Re-envisioning sovereignty: the end of Westphalia?, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot England.
• Thakur, R, Boulden, J & Weiss, T 2008, Can the NPT Regime be fixed or should it be abandoned?.
• Thakur, R, Aoi, C & de Coning, C, eds, 2007, Unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, Japan.
• Thakur, R 2006, The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect, Cambridge University Press, UK.
• Thakur, R., 2012c. 'To Stop Iran Getting the Bomb, Must We Learn to Live with Its Nuclear Capability?' Strategic Analysis, vol. 36, no. 2 (March ), pp. 326-32
• Thakur, R., 2012b. 'International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect' (Review Essay). European Journal of International Law,, vol. 23, no. 1 (March )
• Thakur, R., 2012a. Libya and the Responsibility to Protect. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, Situation Report (March).
• Thakur, R., 2011j. 'If You Want the Peace of the Dead, Prepare for Nuclear War', UN Chronicle, vol. 48, no. 4 (October-December ), pp. 26-29
• Thakur, R. 2011i. 'The United Nations and the United States: Rebalancing Power and Authority for International Security', Russia in Global Affairs (December)
• Thakur, R. 2011h. 'Libya and the Responsibility to Protect: Between Opportunistic Humanitarianism and Value-Free Pragmatism', Security Challenges, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer ), pp. 13-25
• Thakur, R., 2011g. 'India and the United Nations', Strategic Analysis, vol. 35, no. 6 (November ), pp. 898-905
• Heine,, J. and Thakur, R., 2011b. 'Globalisation and Uncivil Society', Jindal Journal of International Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1 (October ), pp. 164-81
• Kemp, W., Popovski, V., and Thakur, R., eds., 2011. Blood and Borders: The Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of the Kin-State. Tokyo: United Nations University Press
• Thakur, R., 2011f. The People vs. the State: Reflections on UN Authority, US Power and the Responsibility to Protect. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
• Thakur, R. 2011e, The Responsibility to Protect and the North-South Divide. In International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Developments, edited by S.R. Silverburg. Boulder: Westview: 32-47.
• Thakur, R. 2011d, Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations: Global Governance Venue or Actor? In The New Dynamics of Multilateralism: Diplomacy, International Organizations, and Global Governance, edited by J.P. Muldoon, J.F. Aviel, R. Reitano, and E. Sulivan. Boulder: Westview: 249-265.
• Thakur, R 2011c. The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics. London: Routledge.
• Thakur, R 2011b, 'Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament: Can the Power of Ideas Tame the Power of the State?', International Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 34-45.
• Thakur, R. 2011a. 'Delinking Destiny from Geography: The Changing Balance of India-Pakistan Relations', India Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3 (September), pp. 197-212.
• Heine, J. and Thakur, R, eds., 2011a, The Dark Side of Globalization. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
• Chin, G. and R. Thakur, 2010, Will China Change the Rules of Global Order? The Washington Quarterly 33:4 (October): 119-138.
• Thakur, R. 2010, Law, Legitimacy and United Nations. Melbourne Journal of International Law 11:1 (May): 1-26.
• Weiss, T.G. and R. Thakur, 2010. Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Boulden, J., R. Thakur and T.G. Weiss, eds., 2009. The United Nations and Nuclear Orders. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
• Thakur, R. and T.G. Weiss, 2009a, R2P: From Idea to Norm - and Action? Global Responsibility to Protect 1:1 (January-March): 22-53.
• Thakur, R. and T.G. Weiss, 2009b, United Nations "Policy": An Argument with Three Illustrations. International Studies Perspectives 10:1 (January-April ): 18-35.
• Jacobsen, T., C. Sampford and R. Thakur, eds., 2008. Re-envisioning Sovereignty: The End of Westphalia? London: Ashgate.
• Hughes, E., W.A. Schabas and R. Thakur, eds., 2007. Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Funding Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia (as represented by the Department of Defence) and the ANU (as represented by the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (Primary Investigator)
• State of Nuclear Play Report (Primary Investigator)