Gareth Evans

Former Australian Foreign Minister (1988-1996) and past President of the International Crisis Group (2000-2009). Author of The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All, and co-chair of the International Advisory Board of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect.

THE WORLD IN WORDS / An Iran deal ten years late

The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the P5+1 (the UN Security Council's five permanent members – China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States – plus Germany) in Vienna this month is that it was not signed and sealed a decade ago.

24 July 2015, 18:00 PM

THE WORLD IN WORDS / Serenity in the South China Sea

The central, painful reality that the US must accept is that a major shift in the Asia-Pacific balance of power has already taken place. The days of America's unequivocal primacy and unilateral capacity to write the rules are over.

2 July 2015, 18:00 PM

World in Words / Limiting the Security Council veto

Back in 2001, France floated a proposal that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) should voluntarily refrain from using their veto power when dealing with mass-atrocity crimes.

9 February 2015, 06:00 AM