Thant Myint-U
@thantmyintu.bsky.social
https://www.thantmyintu.com/peacemaker
Can the world still make peace in an era of growing global conflict? 🌍 Watch a recent talk by POLIS Senior Research Fellow Dr Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu.bsky.social exploring the history of UN diplomacy and global security. 📽️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/a7hEkze...
Can the World Still Make Peace? A Conversation with Thant Myint-U
YouTube video by Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Pleased to say that my new book will be published in Sept. Featuring the Congo & the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam & the Six Day War, it’s the story of how the newly independent nations of Africa & Asia transformed the UN and when, for a while, a global peace seemed within reach.
President Trump’s proposal for a “Board of Peace” is not a sudden break from the United Nations, but “the latest chapter in a much longer history of America’s estrangement from its own creation,” Thant Myint-U writes.
Opinion | Trump’s Board of Peace Is Anything But
America has conveniently forgotten that it once took the world to end conflicts.
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Can the UN Sec-Gen still act as a firebreak against conflict? Pleased to join the ‘World’s Toughest Job’, with @thantmyintu.bsky.social @nktpnd.bsky.social & Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein @ipinst.bsky.social to discuss. 🎙️ (discussion starts at 12:00): foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/wor... @foreignpolicy.com
Can the Secretary-General Still Act as a Firebreak on Peace and Security?
Lynn Kuok, Ankit Panda, and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein discuss.
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Really enjoyed my conversation with @tparsi.bsky.social on the past and future of peacemaking @quincyinst.bsky.social
Book Talk | Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World
YouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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Ordinary people have long been gaslit into believing the only future possible is one dominated by ever more potent weapons & great-power rivalries. Today's fluid moment is an opportunity, not to rescue a collapsing liberal international order, but refortify the crumbling taboos against war & empire
Thant Myint-U’s new book on his grandfather, the first non-white secretary-general of the UN, revisits an era when the institution inspired expectations of internationalist diplomatic leadership that have since faded away. Read Maximillian Morch's review essay for Himal: https://ow.ly/36Uh50Z6vgn
Remembering U Thant and the lost promise of the United Nations
Thant Myint-U’s new book on his grandfather, the first non-white secretary-general of the UN, revisits an era when the institution inspired expectations of internationalist diplomatic leadership that have since faded away
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today we have a live special, co-hosted by the @lrb.co.uk. David was joined by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, historian Chris Clark and diplomat and writer Thant Myint-U to discuss the fate of democracy in the long run and in the short term. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
“Across the world, the desire for a world free of war and empire exists, waiting to be mobilized and given fresh political voice.“ From my essay published this week in @ForeignAffairs. Related podcast link below www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how...
How to Prevent the Next World War
A Conversation With Thant Myint-U
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Ordinary people have long been gaslit into believing the only future possible is one dominated by ever more potent weapons & great-power rivalries. Today's fluid moment is an opportunity, not to rescue a collapsing liberal international order, but refortify the crumbling taboos against war & empire
EVENT: Blavatnik Book Talk: Peacemaker Thant Myint-U will talk about his latest book as well as what the never-before-told story reveals about global politics and the prospects for future peace. 📆 19 Mar, 5:30pm GMT Register ⬇️ https://ow.ly/RFVF50Yp2s1
Eight decades of global peace and cooperation are coming to an end, writes Thant Myint-U. “The twin convictions of no war and no empire, the load-bearing walls of the long peace, are fast buckling.”
The Crumbling Pillars of Global Peace
War, empire, and the forgotten power of the United Nations.
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On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Thant Myint-U discusses the past and future of the United Nations—and considers how the pillars of global peace can be reinforced before they collapse. https://fam.ag/4f8T7K3
Trump's Board of Peace Is Anything But (Thant Myint-U/New York Times) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
‘We zijn vergeten dat je vrede moet organiseren, het volstaat niet om er enkel aan te denken.’ Historicus Thant Myint-U over grootvader U Thant, de vergeten VN-secretaris-generaal. buff.ly/j359uvS
‘We zijn vergeten dat je vrede moet organiseren, het volstaat niet om er enkel aan te denken’ – MO*
Kent u U Thant nog, VN-secretaris-generaal in de jaren '60? Zijn erfenis is erg actueel in geopolitiek spannende tijden.
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Thant Myint-U (son of U Thant) made this point at a @lrb.co.uk @ppfideas.bsky.social panel in London last night. Would have been a much poorer panel without his perspective. Hopefully this is coming out as a PPF episode at some point.
Thant Myint-U produced my favourite biography this year, Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960’s. It is a brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age that feels very distant now: an era of optimism and idealism.
I am half-way through it and enjoying it enormously. What a man, and what a time. Much to be learnt from this book for the present.
Thant Myint-U@thantmyintu.bsky.social · last yr.Pleased to say that my new book will be published in Sept. Featuring the Congo & the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam & the Six Day War, it’s the story of how the newly independent nations of Africa & Asia transformed the UN and when, for a while, a global peace seemed within reach.
'He exuded a sense of Buddhist calm and tolerance, yet was at home among the international elite.' Prof @sulinlewis.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews a 'riveting new biography' of U Thant, former Secretary-General of the UN, in a new piece for The TLS www.the-tls.com/history/twen...
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In the same year, 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe on the desk at the UN, leaders of the decolonizing world – Castro, Sukarno, Nasser, Nkrumah, Nehru – took turns to lambast the o...
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I had a fantastic conversation with @thantmyintu about his new book about his grandfather. The book - Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World - is a fantastic read and reveals the key role U Thant played in resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXx...
Book Talk | Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World
YouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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This was a compelling biography of man at the helm of the UN in the turbulent 60s. Here I tried (in 750 words!) to give more context on the #afroasian world, its engagement with the UN, and Burma's decolonisation. Read it just for U Thant and Kruschev bobbing along together in the Black Sea.
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Arts Matter Bristol@uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 11mo ago'He exuded a sense of Buddhist calm and tolerance, yet was at home among the international elite.' Prof @sulinlewis.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews a 'riveting new biography' of U Thant, former Secretary-General of the UN, in a new piece for The TLS www.the-tls.com/history/twen...
'Thant gives us a sense of his grandfather’s odyssey as a series of tireless efforts for peace amid the failing promises of a world after empire.' Su Lin Lewis: How U Thant rescued the UN
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📚Fall Reading List 📖 Peacemaker Thant Myint-U 📖 A Different Kind of Power Jacinda Ardern 📖 107 Days Kamala Harris 📖 Big Bets Rajiv Shah 📖 How to Stand Up To A Dictator Maria Ressa 📖 On Leadership Tony Blair
Peacemaker is a model of biographical thoroughness and insight, beautifully written and artfully shaped, and it tells its extraordinary story with an enviable mixture of writerly skill and scholarly authority.
Really enjoyed this conversation with @markleongoldberg.bsky.social about my new book Peacemaker (and how a reframing of recent global history - including & perhaps especially the “Cold War” of the long 1960s - might us imagine new ways forward) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
A Brilliant New Biography Tells the Story of the Cold War Era UN Secretary General U-Thant
Podcast Episode · Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters · 17/11/2025 · 35m
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New from @crisisgroup.org: @fortid.crisisgroup.org, @maxji.bsky.social and I look at #UNSC debates over whether to endorse the U.S. peace plan for #Gaza. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
What to Look for as the Gaza Peace Plan Comes to the UN Security Council | International Crisis Group
The United States has proposed a UN Security Council resolution to back President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Daniel Forti, Richard Gowan and Max Rodenbeck analyse ...
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