Gareth Evans, Australia’s foreign minister for eight years and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, is currently Chancellor of the Australian National University and co-chair of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect. As Foreign Minister, he was at the forefront of recasting Australia’s relationship with China, India, and Indonesia, while deepening its alliance with the US, and helped found the APEC and ASEAN security forums. He also played a leading role in bringing peace to Cambodia and negotiating the International Convention on Chemical Weapons, and is the principal framer of the United Nations’ “responsibility to protect” doctrine.
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Gareth Evans
Commentaries by Gareth Evans
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The Nuclear Illusion
GENEVA – As delegates from 189 countries gather to prepare for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, due in 201…
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Valuing the United Nations
MELBOURNE – There is nothing like exposure to smart and idealistic young people to make jaded and world-weary policymakers and commentators …
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Keeping Calm on North Korea
CANBERRA – North Korea’s latest nuclear test is bad news, both for Northeast Asia and for a world that needs to reduce its reliance on nucle…
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Japan and the Politics of Guilt
CANBERRA – Japan is again alienating its neighbors and driving its friends to despair over the issue of accepting responsibility for its war…
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The Global March Toward Peace
CANBERRA – If we were hoping for peace in our time, 2012 did not deliver it. Conflict grew ever bloodier in Syria, continued to grind on in …
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From Gaza to Where?
CANBERRA – The wisest words on the Second Gaza War may have come from an Israeli living in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. “If you want to d…
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Remembering Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
NEW YORK – One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world’s collective conscience. We remember…
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Nuclear Disarmament Disarmed
SINGAPORE – US President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great…
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A Lifeline for Asia’s Boat People
CANBERRA – Sometimes countries arrive at good policy only after exhausting all available alternatives. So it has been with Australia’s belat…
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Calming the South China Sea
CANBERRA – The South China Sea – long regarded, together with the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula, as one of East Asia’s three major …
The Nuclear Illusion
Joseph Blower: I take issue with the assertion "if it ever was". Of course it was. On several occasions there were close calls, at least one of which was only known to historians after-the-fact. And, make no m…
Keeping Calm on North Korea
Michael Cohen: We faced down the Russians for decades. The North Korean leadership must know that firing a missile is a death warrent for them. China is North Korea's life line. Only the Chinese can force the N…