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.

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.

9y ago

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.

9y ago

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.

9y ago
July 25, 2015
July 25, 2015

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.

July 3, 2015
July 3, 2015

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.

February 9, 2015
February 9, 2015

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.