Australian politician
Gareth John Evans
AC
,
KC
(born 5 September 1944), is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the
Labor Party
in the
Senate
and
House of Representatives
from 1978 to 1999, serving as a
Cabinet
Minister in the
Hawke
and
Keating
governments from 1983 to 1996 as
Attorney-General
,
Minister for Resources and Energy
,
Minister for Transport and Communications
and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as
Minister for Foreign Affairs
. He was Leader of the
Government
in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the
Opposition
from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.
[1]
After leaving politics, he was president and
chief executive officer
of the Brussels-based
International Crisis Group
from 2000 to 2009. On returning to Australia he was appointed in 2009 honorary professorial fellow at the
University of Melbourne
. He has served on a number of major international commissions and panels, including as co-chair of the
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
(2000?01) and the
International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
(2008?10). Evans has written extensively on
international relations
and legal, constitutional and political affairs, and has been internationally recognised for his contributions to the theory and practice of mass atrocity and conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament.
From 2010 to 2020, Evans was the
Chancellor
of the
Australian National University
(ANU). He was appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the ANU in 2012. He currently is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
.
Early life and education
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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
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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]
Evans was active in civil liberties issues from his student days on, campaigning on issues such as
censorship
,
capital punishment
, the
White Australia
policy,
apartheid
and
abortion
law reform. He was a long-serving vice-president of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria), and an active executive member of the
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
.
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
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Opposition, 1978?1983
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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
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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
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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.
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.
[9]
Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1988?1996
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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.
[10]
[11]
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).
His most widely acknowledged successes as foreign minister were his initiation of the UN peace plan for
Cambodia
,
[12]
and the roles that he and Australia played in bringing to fruition the International
Chemical Weapons Convention
and establishing both the
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) forum and the
ASEAN Regional Forum
(ARF). Major contributions to international agenda setting, though not bearing much immediate fruit, were his book on UN reform
[13]
launched in
New York City
in 1993, and his initiation with Paul Keating of the
Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
.
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
.
[14]
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
.
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
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
[19]
? 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,
[20]
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
Jose Ramos-Horta
)
[21]
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
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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",
[22]
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
[23]
following the High Court of Australia's decision in
Mabo v Queensland
.
Return to opposition, 1996?1999
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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.
[24]
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.
[25]
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".
[26]
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
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International Crisis Group
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In 1994, while Foreign Minister of Australia, Evans committed his government to donate $500,000 as initial funding
[27]
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.
[28]
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,
[29]
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.
[30]
The responsibility to protect
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In 2000?2001 Evans co-chaired, with
Mohamed Sahnoun
, the
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
(ICISS), appointed by the government of Canada to address the issue of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes, which published its report,
The Responsibility to Protect
, in December 2001.
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.
[31]
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
[32]
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
.
Other international panels and commissions
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He was a member of the
UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
, whose report
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility
, addressing mass atrocity crimes and many other UN reform issues, was published in December 2004.
Evans also served on the UN
Secretary-General
's
Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention
.
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.
He is a member of the
Crimes Against Humanity Initiative
Advisory Council, a project of the
Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute
at
Washington University School of Law
in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
Nuclear issues
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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.
Other organisations
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His other recorded affiliations with internationally focused organisations include:
- Asia Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), Convenor
- Asia Society
, Member of the Global Council
- Aspen Ministers Forum
(chaired by
Madeleine Albright
), Member
- Aurora Prize
, Member of the Selection Committee (since 2015)
[33]
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
, Fellow
- Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Chair of the International Advisory Board
- Global Leadership Foundation
, Member
- Global Panel Foundation-Australasia, Member of the Board of Advisors
- Independent Diplomat
, Member of the Advisory Council
- Institute for Economics and Peace
, Member of the International Advisory Board
- International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe
, Member of the Supervisory Council
- Nuremberg International Human Rights Award
, Member of the Jury
[34]
- World Economic Forum
(WEF), Member of the Global Agenda Council on Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
- Global Panel
, Member of Global Panel Worldwide
Academic career and published writing
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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,
[35]
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).
[36]
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),
[37]
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.
[38]
Contributions to international relations thinking
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Good international citizenship
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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.
[39]
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.
[40]
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".
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Niche diplomacy
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"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
).
[42]
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".
[43]
The concept is now familiar in academic discourse, and has been specifically attributed to Evans.
[44]
Cooperative security
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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".
[45]
Honours and awards
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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."
[46]
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".
[47]
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 Institute
Four 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".
[48]
Earlier in his career he was designated Australian Humanist of the Year in 1990 by the
Council of Australian Humanist Societies
, won the ANZAC Peace Prize in 1994 for his "leadership role in the Cambodian Peace Process", was awarded in 1995 the prestigious
University of Louisville
$150 000
Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Improving World Order
for his 1994
Foreign Policy
article "Cooperative Security and Intrastate Conflict", and in 1999 received the
Chilean Order of Merit
(Grand Officer) for his work in initiating
APEC
.
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.
In 2012 Evans was elected an honorary fellow of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
.
[49]
Personal life
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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
.
[51]
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
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- 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
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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.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
"Hon Gareth Evans QC, MP"
.
Senators and Members of the
Parliament of Australia
. Retrieved
11 November
2021
.
- ^
For documentation of the issues and events summarised here see Scott,
Gareth Evans
, Chapter 10.
- ^
See for example
Forbes, John (June 1996),
Chapter Five: Revisiting Mabo: Time for the Streaker's Defence?
, archived from
the original
on 12 March 2015
- ^
For documentation of the issues and events summarised here see Scott,
Gareth Evans
, Chapters 11 and 12.
- ^
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.
- ^
see Australian Senate Hansard, 6 December 1990,
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F1990-12-06%2F0091%22
- ^
Daley, Paul (26 October 2008).
"For Labor, it's easier being with the Greens"
.
The Sydney Morning Herald
. Fairfax Media. Archived from
the original
on 30 January 2016.
- ^
Gareth Evans on the Hawke-Keating years; Charles Waterstreet on the TV series, Rake
, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 13 January 2015, archived from
the original
on 30 January 2016
- ^
Nicholson, Brendan (10 June 2008).
"Fiery Evans to relish new crisis role"
.
The Sydney Morning Herald
. Fairfax Media
. Retrieved
6 December
2016
.
- ^
"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.
- ^
See
Chomsky, Noam (3 November 2011),
Noam Chomsky: can revolutionary pacificism deliver peace?
, The Conversation, archived from
the original
on 29 January 2013
;
Pilger, John (23 July 2000),
A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor
, archived from
the original
on 8 December 2015
;
Pilger, John (5 April 2012),
East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
, archived from
the original
on 17 October 2015
- ^
See especially
Evans, Gareth (3 November 2011),
"East Timor and me: A response to Noam Chomsky"
,
Interpreter
, Lowy Institute, archived from
the original
on 12 October 2015
- ^
Needham, Kirsty (23 June 2010).
"Oil pipeline 'better than aid' for East Timor"
.
The Age
. Fairfax Media.
- ^
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.
- ^
Department of the Parliamentary Library (2003) The Mabo debate: a chronology
Accessed 13 May 2012
- ^
Laurie Oakes
(3 July 2002). "Cheryl Kernot and the Unreported Story".
The Bulletin
.
- ^
See e.g.
Nicholls, Sean (2 May 2012),
"Lure of the limelight: has Kristina Keneally got 'relevance deprivation syndrome'?"
,
The Sydney Morning Herald
, Fairfax Media, archived from
the original
on 28 September 2012
;
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/talkback-relevance-deprivation-syndrome/2979658
- ^
Keith Scott,
Gareth Evans
(Allen & Unwin, 1999), p.357.
- ^
Stephen Solarz
(2010). "Transforming an Idea into Reality".
1995-2010 Fifteen Years on the Front Lines - International Crisis Group
. ICG. p. 12. Archived from
the original
on 7 March 2013.
Gareth Evans, then Foreign Minister of Australia, who indicated his government would be prepared to provide up to $500,000 in multi-year funding if we decided to move ahead
- ^
See
Fifteen Years on the Frontlines 1995?2010
at
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/~/media/Files/misc/Crisisgroup-15-yearsReduced.ashx
Archived
3 June 2012 at
Archive-It
; Gareth Evans, "Farewell Message on Leaving Crisis Group", at
http://www.gevans.org/speeches/cg_farewell.html
; and generally the ICG website,
http://www.crisisgroup.org
- ^
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
- ^
See e.g.
"In praise of ... the International Crisis Group"
;
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=72461&GRP=p1/TIME-magazine.htm
;
"Archived copy"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 6 May 2013
. Retrieved
10 October
2012
.
{{
cite web
}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link
)
;
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/comments-about-us.aspx
Archived
19 May 2012 at the
Wayback Machine
. Clinton declared in 2011 that the ICG is "an extraordinary, important organization that is relied upon certainly across the world":
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Evans, Gareth; Sahnoun, Mohamed (2002). "The Responsibility to Protect".
Foreign Affairs
.
81
(6): 99?110.
doi
:
10.2307/20033347
.
JSTOR
20033347
.
- ^
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
'
"
- ^
Selection Committee
Archived
9 September 2018 at the
Wayback Machine
Aurora Prize
.
- ^
Jury
Nuremberg International Human Rights Award
.
- ^
"Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC"
.
About: Governance
.
The Australian National University
. Retrieved
11 April
2018
.
- ^
Abjorsensen, Norman (2 December 2017).
"Book Review: Gareth Evans' 'Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir'
"
.
The Sydney Morning Herald
.
- ^
Evans, Gareth J. (2008).
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All
. Brookings Institution Press.
ISBN
978-0815725046
.
- ^
Evans's personal website,
http://www.gevans.org
contains a comprehensive list of publications.
- ^
"Australia's Place in the World: The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Decisionmaking", ANU, 6 December 1988, at
http://www.gevans.org/speeches/old/1988/061288_fm_australiasplace.pdf
; "Australian Foreign Policy: Priorities in a Changing World", AIIA Melbourne, 27 April 1989,
http://www.gevans.org/speeches/old/1989/270489_fm_prioritiesinachanging.pdf
; see also, e.g., Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant,
Australia's Foreign Relations
(Melbourne University Press, 2nd ed, 1995) pp.33?5.
- ^
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, "Middle Power Diplomacy", Edgardo Boeninger Memorial Lecture, Santiago, 29 June 2011, at
http://www.gevans.org/speeches/speech441.html
- ^
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.
- ^
"Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia ? The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours Lists"
(PDF)
.
Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia
. 11 June 2012. p.
2
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 16 June 2012.
- ^
"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
- ^
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
, The FP Group, 28 November 2011, archived from
the original
on 18 March 2013
- ^
"Fellows List - ASSA"
.
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
. Retrieved
23 January
2018
.
- ^
Evans, Gareth
;
Grant, Bruce
(1992).
Australia's Foreign Relations: In the World of the 1990s
.
- ^
"Evans admits to affair with Kernot"
. 4 July 2002. Archived from
the original
on 14 September 2014.
- ^
Gareth Evans official website "Publications by Gareth Evans" at
https://www.gevans.org/pubs.html
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