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Who Do They Think They Are?

When extraordinary writers prove fallible

To Save a Planet

Between despair and disaster

Campfire Confessional

Crushes, counsellors, and s’more

Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. A member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and a former United Nations assistant secretary general, he is the author of The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics (London: Routledge, forthcoming). In 2011 he takes up a new position as professor of international relations at the Australian National University.

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Ramesh Thakur

Intervention or Protection

Semantics in this case could make a world of difference December 2010
A major policy initiative in the field of foreign affairs, the Will to Intervene Project, has now become a book and deserves Canadians’ serious attention. The project’s co-directors are Frank Chalk and Roméo Dallaire. Chalk comes from a family that suffered grievously in the Holocaust. Dallaire, now a senator, is an all-Canadian hero for his gallant actions to buck the tide of international indifference to the unfolding genocide in…