Evans was born in Melbourne,Victoria. His father was a tram driver,and his mother,who had been a wartime Woolworths store manager,ran a small baby-wear business from home. He was educated at Hawthorn West Central School (1950–57);Melbourne High School,where he was school captain (1958–61);the University of Melbourne (1962–67) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws with First-Class Honours,sharing the Supreme Court Prize,was a Member of the Melbourne University Law Review and was President of the Students Representative Council from 1964 to 1966;and Magdalen College,Oxford (1968–70),where he attended on a Shell scholarship and graduated with a Master of Arts with First-Class Honours in Philosophy,Politics and Economics (PPE).
Career
In 2004,he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College,his alma mater at Oxford.[2]
From 1971 to 1976,he was law academic at the University of Melbourne,teaching crime,torts,civil liberties law and federal constitutional law,and becoming a prominent commentator on legal issues,especially at the time of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975. In 1977 he edited Labor and the Constitution 1972–75,a collection of essays on constitutional issues arising during the life of the Whitlam government,and later co-authored Australia's Constitution,arguing for major constitutional reforms.[3] From 1976 to his entry into the Parliament he practised full-time as a barrister,specialising in industrial law,and appellate argument,and became a Queen's Counsel (in Victoria and the ACT) in 1983.[4]
During the Whitlam Labor government,he acted as a consultant to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gordon Bryant,advising on Indigenous land rights and legal services issues,and Attorney-General Lionel Murphy,where he was closely involved in drafting the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the (unsuccessful) Human Rights Bill 1973. He was appointed by Murphy as a foundation member of the Australian Law Reform Commission,chaired by Justice Michael Kirby,and was primarily responsible for the commission's 1975 report on Criminal Investigation.
Evans joined the Australian Labor Party while at University of Melbourne and became actively involved after his return from Oxford in 1975,joining the centrist Labor Unity faction and working closely with its leaders including Clyde Holding,Peter Redlich and Ian Turner –and Bob Hawke,whose ambition to lead the party he strongly supported. He was an unsuccessful Labor candidate for the Senate in 1975,but was elected in 1977 and took his seat in 1978.[5]
Parliamentary and ministerial career
Opposition,1978–1983
As a young backbencher,Evans was one of the two parliamentarians chosen to sit –along with international architects I. M. Pei and John Andrews –on the Parliament House Competition Assessment Panel which in 1979 chose the winning design for the new Australian Parliament House.[6]
In his first years in the Senate,Evans focused strongly on legal and constitutional reform issues,attracting early attention with his series of attacks on Sir Garfield Barwick,for potential conflict of interest between his role as the Chief Justice of the High Court and his involvement in his family company Mundroola. After the October 1980 election he was promoted to the Opposition front bench in 1980,becoming Shadow Attorney-General.[5]
Evans played an active part in ALP National Conferences during this period seeking to modernize the party's platform,in particular the language of the "socialist objective",and within the Parliamentary Party in developing a detailed "transition to government" strategy. He supported Bob Hawke's leadership challenge against Bill Hayden in 1982 which led ultimately to Hayden resigning just hours before Malcolm Fraser announced the March 1983 election and Hawke leading Labor to victory.
Attorney-General,1983–1984
As Attorney-General,Evans undertook a large agenda for law reform on a range of issues. He immediately ran into controversy,arranging for the Royal Australian Air Force to take surveillance photos of the Franklin Dam project in Tasmania. The Hawke government was pledged to (and ultimately did) stop the project,over the objections of the Tasmanian Liberal government,on the ground that it endangered a World Heritage listed area. The Hawke government was accused of misusing the RAAF for domestic political purposes,and Evans's use of RAAF planes led to his earning the nickname "Biggles",after Captain W. E. Johns's fictional aviation hero –a self-inflicted wound,following his remark to journalists at the time "whatever you do,don't call me Biggles". This incident also led to Evans coining the expression "streaker's defence" (i.e. "it seemed like a good idea at the time"),which has entered the Australian vocabulary.[7] More serious controversy surrounded the Government's handling of national security issues including the Combe-Ivanov affair and the attempted suppression of publication of leaked documents by journalist Brian Toohey,and the allegations of impropriety made against High Court Justice Lionel Murphy,all of which created stress for Evans as an avowed civil libertarian. He achieved a number of reforms,including the establishment of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the National Crime Authority,the strengthening of the Family Law and Freedom of Information Act,and some business regulation changes,but failed in his attempts to achieve uniform national defamation law,a legislative bill of rights,and constitutional reform. In a demotion following this mixed record,Hawke moved him to the less sensitive portfolio of Resources and Energy after the 1984 election.[8]
Resources,energy,transport and communications,1984–1988
In the two major industry portfolios he held over the next five years,Evans was generally perceived as playing himself back into the government mainstream. As Minister for Resources and Energy from 1984 to 1987[5] he won industry support for his role in rescuing from possible collapse of the huge North West Shelf gas project,managing the Australian fallout from the crash in world oil prices in 1986,and seeking to strike a workable balance,between resource sector and competing interests,on uranium mining,the environment and Aboriginal land rights.
In February 1987,shortly after his appointment as Manager of Government Business in the Senate,Evans caused controversy by making comments comparing a Senate debate to rape,stating "that if rape is inevitable,one might as well if not enjoy it,at least succumb with such grace as one can muster in the circumstances". His ALP colleague Susan Ryan asked him to withdraw the comment,but he refused to do so.[9] The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre requested that Evans apologise and staged a protest in the public gallery of the Senate two days later. On the same day,Evans caused further controversy by comparing three female Liberal senators to a half-back line and stated that they were among "things [that] frighten me". In a personal explanation to the Senate he said his remarks were a throwaway line and that he "did not say,nor would I ever say,in jest or otherwise,that rape could ever be enjoyed".[10]
As Transport and Communications minister in 1987–88,[5] he was involved in some controversy with the Australian Broadcasting Commission over funding guarantees and charter reform,but primarily concerned with issues at the heart of the government's micro-economic strategy:major airline deregulation,and the reform of government business enterprises in the telecommunications and other sectors,designed to corporatize their commercial practices,as a necessary prelude to the privatisation that later followed.[11]
Minister for Foreign Affairs,1988–1996
Evans was appointed Foreign Minister in September 1988,[5] after his predecessor Bill Hayden retired to become Governor-General. He held the position for seven years and six months,the longest-serving Labor minister in that portfolio,since Evatt. He became a well-known Foreign Minister and highly regarded internationally,and continues to be regarded as one of Australia's most successful.[12][13] The Hawke and Keating governments were committed to shifting emphasis from Australia's traditional relationships with the United States and the United Kingdom to increased involvement with Asian neighbours,particularly Indonesia and China,and were strongly committed to multilateral diplomacy both globally and regionally.
Evans brought a strongly structured and analytical approach to foreign policymaking and is credited with significant innovative thinking in his articulation,in particular,of the concepts of middle power and niche diplomacy,"good international citizenship" as a national interest,and cooperative security (see "Contributions to international relations thinking",below).
Evans famously became the first person to drop the f-bomb in the Australian Parliament,interjecting "for fuck's sake" during a speech by Senator Robert Hill.[16] Despite his reputation as a negotiator he was widely reputed to be in possession of a short-temper with a particular intolerance for elected representatives of the Australian Greens.[17][18][19][20]
Evans ran into significant controversy on two major issues:relations with Indonesia over East Timor and French Nuclear Tests in the Pacific. Evans continues to be strongly criticised by many commentators –most prominently Noam Chomsky and John Pilger[21] –for supporting Australia's recognition of Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor following its military invasion in 1975,negotiating (and celebrating "replete with champagne") with then Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas the Timor Gap Treaty,and describing the 1991 Dili massacre as "an aberration,not an act of state policy". Evans has replied at length to these charges in various forums,[22] acknowledging that the Indonesian military's behaviour had been appalling and conceding that Australia had been too optimistic about its capacity for redemption,but arguing,that de jure recognition by Australian (and other) governments had never denied the continuing right of the East Timorese to self-determination;that he personally had worked hard (as subsequently acknowledged by JoséRamos-Horta)[23] to achieve real autonomy for East Timor as the only realistic option before the events of 1997;and that independent East Timor had fully inherited the benefits of the Timor Gap Treaty. The Timor Gap Treaty was replaced by the Timor Sea Treaty after East Timor's independence in 2002. However,after the Australia-East Timor spying scandal came to light,East Timor terminated the treaties,which were favorable to Australia. In 2018,the treaty in force today was concluded,which is far more favorable to East Timor.
When in June 1995 the resumption of French underground nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll was announced,Evans generated a storm of press and public criticism for remarking that while Australia deplored the decision "it could have been worse". This was strictly accurate as the test series was limited in number,and France promised to then permanently close the test facility and join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty negotiations,but it politically damaged Evans and his party.
Leader of the government in the Senate,1993–1996
In 1993,as a member of the Keating government,Senator Evans became Leader of the Government in the Senate,[5] replacing the retiring John Button,whose Deputy he had been since 1987. In this position he led the government's domestic legislative agenda in the upper house,where the government did not have a majority,and every bill had to be negotiated with the minor parties. In what was described at the time as "perhaps the finest moment in his political career",[24] he played the leading role in getting the government's Native Title Act 1993 through the Senate in one of the Parliament's longest-ever debates[25] following the High Court of Australia's decision in Mabo v Queensland.
Return to opposition,1996–1999
Evans had long desired to move from the Senate to the House of Representatives,where he hoped to pursue leadership ambitions. His first attempt to do so,in 1984,had been thwarted by the Socialist Left faction,but in 1996 he gained endorsement for the seat of Holt,in Melbourne's eastern suburbs,and was elected at the 1996 election. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Labor Party,defeating Simon Crean,and appointed Shadow Treasurer by Leader Kim Beazley. As Deputy Leader Evans led a major policy review in every shadow portfolio area,and during 1997 orchestrated in secret the defection to the Labor Party of the popular leader of the Australian Democrats,Senator Cheryl Kernot,who resigned from the Senate in October and became a Labor House of Representatives candidate at the 1998 election. The political triumph of the defection was,however,soured by the later revelation –by Laurie Oakes in his column in The Bulletin in 2002 –that Evans and Kernot had been having an affair at the time.[26]
Evans,after eighteen years in the Senate,found the transition to the very different lower house environment not easy to manage,and –with Australia sailing comfortably through the 1997 Asian financial crisis –also found it difficult to get traction with his own economic policy brief. He also did not enjoy the move to opposition after thirteen years in government,coining the expression "relevance deprivation syndrome",which –while he was criticised more than applauded for his honesty at the time –is now entrenched in the national vocabulary.[27] His biographer,Keith Scott,commented that "Overwhelmingly,Evans's period as deputy leader and shadow treasurer –from March 1996 to October 1998 –was his least successful in federal parliament".[28] Labor's defeat at the 1998 election led to Evans's resignation from the opposition front bench,and in September 1999 he resigned from Parliament causing a by-election,which was later won by Labor candidate Anthony Byrne.
Throughout his time as a member of both houses of Parliament,Evans served in three of the four leadership positions,deputy Senate leader,Senate leader and deputy leader in the House of Representatives.[5]
International activity after politics
International Crisis Group
In 1994,while Foreign Minister of Australia,Evans committed his government to donate $500,000 as initial funding[29] for Brussels-based conflict prevention and resolution organisation,the International Crisis Group (ICG).
From 2000–2009 Evans was president and CEO of the ICG,which during his tenure grew in staff from 25 to over 130,in budget from $US2 million to over $15 million,and in operating area from a handful of countries in the Balkans and Central Africa to over 60 across four continents,and published 784 worldwide-distributed reports.[30]
The ICG made important contributions during this period in early-warning bellringing in cases like Darfur and Ethiopia-Eritrea,supporting conflict mediation in situations like Southern Sudan,Kosovo and Aceh,making path-breaking recommendations on Israel-Palestine,Iran and Burma/Myanmar,analysing the different strands of Islamism,and generally providing timely and detailed field-based analysis and recommendations to policymakers on hundreds of separate conflict-related issues.
Although subject to occasional attack for the positions it has taken,[31] the ICG was firmly established by the time of Evans's departure,and has remained,the preeminent international NGO working on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict,praised by leaders across the spectrum from Condoleezza Rice to Hillary Clinton,and regularly being identified as one of the world's most influential think tanks.[32]
The co-chairs then wrote an article on this matter:a state's sovereignty is also under question in times of mass murder,in terms of legitimacy. Sovereignty is dependent upon the state's responsibility to its people;if not fulfilled,then the contract between the government and its citizen is void,thus the sovereignty is not legitimate. In that crucible lies the genesis of the Responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine.[33]
The core idea of the R2P doctrine,as endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit,is that every state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide and other mass atrocity crimes;the international community has a responsibility to assist the state if it is unable to protect its population on its own;and that if the state fails to protect its citizens from mass atrocities and peaceful measures have failed,the international community has the responsibility to intervene with appropriate measures,with coercive military intervention,approved by the UN Security Council,available as a last resort. The concept was expressly designed to supersede the idea of "humanitarian intervention",which had failed to generate any international consensus about how to respond to the 1990s catastrophes of Rwanda,Bosnia and Kosovo.
Evans has been widely acknowledged[34] as playing a crucial role in initiating,and advocating the international acceptance of,the concept,first as Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which introduced the expression in its 2001 report of that name,and subsequently as a member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats,Challenges and Change,Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Centre on the Responsibility to Protect,and as the author of the Brookings Institution-published The Responsibility to Protect:Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All and many other published works. He has made innumerable speeches and presentations on the issue,including in July 2009 participating at the UNGA in an interactive dialogue with Noam Chomsky.
Evans had previously served as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1994–97), co-chaired by Cyrus Vance and David Hamburg. He was also a member of the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, sponsored by Sweden and France and chaired by Ernesto Zedillo, which reported in September 2006.
On nuclear issues, he was a member of the Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction sponsored by Sweden and chaired by Hans Blix which reported in June 2006; and the Commission of Eminent Persons on The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond, chaired by Ernesto Zedillo, whose report Reinforcing the Global Nuclear Order for Peace and Prosperity was launched in June 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he co-chaired (with former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi) the Australia and Japan sponsored International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: its report Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers was published in December 2009.
Before entering Australian politics Evans was a lecturer, then senior lecturer, in law at the University of Melbourne, teaching constitutional and civil liberties law, crime and torts, from 1971 to 1976. In 2009, after his retirement from politics and his subsequent career as head of the International Crisis Group, he returned to academic life as an honorary professorial fellow (later professorial fellow) in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, teaching a graduate course on international policymaking in practice in 2011 and 2012.
He was elected as chancellor of the Australian National University from 1 January 2010,[37] replacing Kim Beazley following Beazley's appointment as Australian Ambassador to the United States. Evans was installed by Governor-General Quentin Bryce at a ceremony in Canberra on 18 February 2010.
He is also an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; a Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India Institute; Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; and Member of the Advisory Boards of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Evans has written or edited 13 books, most recently Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (Melbourne University Press, 2017).[38] His other major works include The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (Brookings Institution Press, September 2008, paperback edition 2009),[39] which was awarded an Honorable Mention in the US Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award 2009 as one of the best three books on international relations published in the previous year, as well as Australia's Foreign Relations (with Bruce Grant, Melbourne University Press 1991, 2nd ed 1995), Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s (Allen & Unwin, 1993), Australia's Constitution (with John McMillan and Haddon Storey, Allen & Unwin, 1983) and the edited collection, Labor and the Constitution, 1972–1975 (Heinemann, 1977). He co-edited the annual Labor Essays series from 1980 to 1982.
Evans has also published nearly 150 chapters in books, monographs and articles in refereed and other journals – and many more newspaper and magazine articles – on foreign relations, politics, human rights and legal reform.[40]
Contributions to international relations thinking
Good international citizenship
Evans introduced the idea of "good international citizenship" in his first major speeches as Australian foreign minister, and repeated and refined it in subsequent writing.[41] The core notion was that "being, and being seen to be, a good international citizen" should be seen not as the "foreign policy equivalent of boy-scout good deeds", but as a distinct component of any country's national interest, "quite distinct from the familiar duo of security and economic interests":
The interest in question here is more than just the pleasure of basking in approbation. There are many direct reciprocal benefits to be gained in a world where no country can solve all its own problems: my assistance for you today in solving your drugs and terrorism problem might reasonably lead you to be more willing to help solve my environmental problem tomorrow. But the reputational benefit does also count. The perception of being a country willing to take principled stands for other than immediately self-interested reasons does no harm at all – as the Scandinavians in particular seem to have well understood – when it comes to advancing one's own commercial or political agendas.[42]
The concept of "good international citizenship" has been specifically attributed to Evans in academic writing; its "idealistic pragmatism" has been seen as a way of bridging or transcending rival doctrines of realism and idealism in international relations theory; and the idea has been advanced as mapping a possible "third way for British foreign policy".[43]
Niche diplomacy
"Niche diplomacy" was identified by Evans as one of the characteristic methods of the larger and more familiar concept of middle power diplomacy which has traditionally characterized the approach to international relations of Canada (especially during the Pearson years) and Australia (especially under the Labor governments of Hawke, Keating and Rudd).[44] He defined it as "concentrating resources in specific areas best able to generate returns worth having, rather than trying to cover the field. By definition, middle powers are not powerful enough in most circumstances to impose their will, but they may be persuasive enough to have likeminded others see their point of view, and to act accordingly".[45] The concept is now familiar in academic discourse, and has been specifically attributed to Evans.[46]
Cooperative security
Evans won the 1995 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (following Mikhail Gorbachev the year before) for his fall 1994 Foreign Policy article, "Cooperative Security and Intra-State Conflict", which was cited as presenting ideas that, following the end of the Cold War "could quicken the process... to help maintain a new world order". He described "cooperative security" as being a single conceptual theme that effectively captured the essence of three more familiar concepts in international security discourse, viz. comprehensive security, common security and collective security. Its defining – and attractive – characteristics were that "the term tends to connote consultation rather than confrontation, reassurance rather than deterrence, transparency rather than secrecy, prevention rather than correction, and interdependence rather than unilateralism".[47]
Honours and awards
On 11 June 2012, Evans was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for "eminent service to international relations, particularly in the Asia Pacific Region as an adviser to governments on a range of global policy matters, to conflict prevention and resolution, and to arms control and disarmament."[48] He had previously been made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2001 for "service to the Australian Parliament, particularly through advancing Australia's foreign policy and trade interests, especially in Asia and through the United Nations", and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Laws by the University of Melbourne in 2002, Carleton University in 2005, the University of Sydney in 2008 and Queen's University Ontario in 2010. In October 2005 he and the International Crisis Group were named European and Asian "Heroes of 2005".[49] In July 2008, he was selected as an inaugural fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to Australian international relations". In May 2010 he was awarded the 2010 Roosevelt InstituteFour Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear for his pioneering work on the responsibility to protect concept and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control and disarmament. In October 2011, he was presented by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, led by Sam Nunn and Ted Turner, the Amartya Sen Award "for intrepid and creative leadership in creating momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons". In December 2011 Foreign Policy magazine cited him, along with Francis Deng, as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2011 "for making 'the responsibility to protect' more than academic".[50]
In April 2007, Evans gave a lecture entitled "Preventing Mass Atrocities: Making 'Never Again' a Reality" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.
Evans has been married since 1969 to Professor Merran Evans, of Monash University, with whom he has two adult children. They have four grandchildren.[citation needed]
In 2002, Evans admitted to having an extramarital relationship with Cheryl Kernot.[53]
He has been a lifelong supporter, and was during his time in Australian government a special patron, of the Hawthorn Football Club. His other stated leisure interests are reading and writing, travel, architecture, opera and golf.[citation needed]
Books
Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (Melbourne University Press, 2017)
Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015 (with Ramesh Thakur and Tanya Ogilvie-White co-authors), Canberra, Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 2015
Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2014)
Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play (with Ramesh Thakur co-ed), Canberra, Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 2013
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008)
Australia's Foreign Relations (with Bruce Grant), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2nd ed. 1995
Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1993
Australia's Constitution (with John McMillan and Haddon Storey), Law Foundation of NSW & Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1983
Labor Essays 1982: Socialist Principles and Parliamentary Government (with John Reeves co-ed.), Melbourne, Drummond, 1982
Labor Essays 1981 (with John Reeves and Justin Malbon co-eds), Melbourne, Drummond, 1981
Labor Essays 1980 (with John Reeves co-ed.), Melbourne, Drummond, 1980
Law, Politics and the Labor Movement (ed.), LSB, Melbourne, 1980
Labor and the Constitution, 1972–1975 (ed.), Melbourne, Heinemann, 1977[54]
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↑ Ralph Willis is the other. Of the others holding ministerial office at the beginning and end of the Hawke/Keating governments, Kim Beazley and Brian Howe were initially in the outer Ministry, not Cabinet, and Paul Keating retired for a time to the back bench.
↑ See generally Keith Scott, Gareth Evans (Allen & Unwin, 1999), Chapters 2–9
↑ Gareth Evans (ed) Labor and the Constitution, 1972–1975 Melbourne, Heinemann, 1977, xv+383 pp; Gareth Evans, John McMillan and Haddon Storey, Australia's Constitution: Time for Change, Law Foundation of NSW & Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1983, xv+422 pp.
↑ During the Keating government, Evans was widely considered as a possible candidate for the High Court of Australia in what would have been the first appointment of a politician appointed to the Court since Lionel Murphy in 1975, but this was never a realistic political option: Adam Harvey, "Evans not for High Court", The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 1994, p.5.
↑ For documentation of the issues and events summarised here see Scott, Gareth Evans, Chapters 13 and 14.
↑ As reflected both in the many formal awards he has received, and the continuing international demand for his services after leaving government: see "International activity after politics" and "Honours and awards", below.
↑ For detailed accounts of Evans's contribution as Foreign Minister see Keith Scott, Gareth Evans, Chs 15–18; David Lee and Christopher Waters (eds), Evatt to Evans: the Labor Tradition in Australian Foreign Policy (Allen & Unwin, 1993); and, from his own perspective, Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant, Australia's Foreign Relations (Melbourne University Press, 2nd ed, 1995).
↑ See Ken Berry, Cambodia From Red to Blue: Australia's Initiative for Peace (Allen & Unwin, 1997)
↑ Gareth Evans, Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s (Allen & Unwin, 1993) xviii+224 pp.
↑ "Julia Gillard Interview Transcript - Part 2". Australian Story. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 12 March 2006. Retrieved 6 December 2016. I am not, not a Gareth Evans, scream at the staff, chuck an ashtray sort of person.
↑ Geoffrey Barker, The Age, 22 December 1993: "the hero [of the Mabo debate] was undoubtedly...Evans, who spent more than 48 hours on his feet...fielding Opposition questions and negotiating with the minor parties. His performance was a political tour de force in overcoming an opposition determination to destroy the legislation by filibuster. It was perhaps the finest moment in his political career". Quoted in Keith Scott, Gareth Evans, p.336.
↑ See Tom Hazeline, "The North Atlantic Counsel: The Complicity of the International Crisis Group", New Left Review 63, May–June 2010 at http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2841
↑ Evans, Gareth; Sahnoun, Mohamed (2002). "The Responsibility to Protect". Foreign Affairs. 81 (6): 99–110. doi:10.2307/20033347. JSTOR20033347.
↑ See, e.g. Edward Luck in Robert I.Rotberg (ed), Mass Atrocity Crimes: Preventing Future Outrages (Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation, 2010), p.112: "clearly the most energetic and determined proponent of R2P has been Gareth Evans, the former foreign minister of Australia and co-chair... of the ICISS Commission. He is widely credited with coming up with the phrase 'responsibility to protect'"
↑ Evans, Gareth J. (2008). The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN978-0815725046.
↑ Evans's personal website, http://www.gevans.org contains a comprehensive list of publications.
↑ Gareth Evans, The Responsibility to Protect (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), pp. 229–30.
↑ See Nicholas J Wheeler and Tim Dunne, "Good international citizenship: a third way for British foreign policy", International Affairs 74.4 (1998), 847–70 – 848; Tim Dunne and Nicholas J Wheeler, "Blair's Britain: a force for good in the world" in Karen E Smith and Margot Light (eds) Ethics and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001), p168; David Goldsworthy, "Australia and Good International Citizenship" in S.Lawson (ed) The New Agenda for Global Security: Cooperating for Peace and Beyond (Allen & Unwin, 1995); Andrew Linklater, "What is a Good International Citizen?" in Paul Keal (ed) Ethics and Foreign Policy (Allen & Unwin Sydney 1992).
↑ Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant, Australia's Foreign Relations (Melbourne University Press, 2nd ed, 1995) pp.345.
↑ "It was Gareth Evans, when serving as foreign minister of middle-power Australia, who gave 'niche diplomacy' its name. For Evans, the term meant, essentially, specialization": Alan K Henriksen, "Niche Diplomacy in the World Public Arena: The Global 'Corners' of Canada and Norway", in Jan Melissen (ed), The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005). See also Andrew F.Cooper (ed), Niche Diplomacy: Middle Powers after the Cold War (Macmillan Press/St Martin's Press 1997).
↑ "Cooperative Security and Intrastate Conflict", Foreign Policy, No. 96, Fall (1994): 3–20, p.7. Evans had first articulated this concept in his 1995 book, Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond (Allen & Unwin, 1993), p.16.
↑ "A Good Man to Have in a Crisis", Time Europe, Special Edition, 10 October 2005; "International Crisis Group – The Problem Solvers", Time Asia, Special Edition, 10 October 2005
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