Gareth Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gareth Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gareth |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5646-2576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Minority Government in Wales: Lessons for the Future?
Minority situations have been a consistent theme at each of the seven Senedd elections since the introduction of devolution in Wales in 1999. These situations look set to continue following the introduction of a new, more proportional electoral system at the most recent election in May 2026. Such electoral outcomes have led to Wales experiencing different types of government, including majority coalitions, formal minority and substantive minority…
The Birth of R2P: A Play in Three Acts
For all the difficulties in ensuring its effective implementation in recent years, R2P remains the only credible conceptual foundation – morally and politically – for achieving global consensus about how to respond to mass atrocity crimes committed behind sovereign state walls. But its birth was anything but inevitable, capable of being aborted at any of the three pivotal stages here described. First, finding common ground between global North an…
Playing the game”: Performativity, power and panopticism in the context of school inspection in Wales
School inspection is recognised across the world as an important accountability mechanism designed to evaluate performance and maintain standards. In the United Kingdom, research related to school inspection has tended to focus on England’s inspectorate, Ofsted, and its influence on teachers and leaders there. This small-scale study is distinct in that it considers for the first time the Welsh inspectorate, Estyn, and its perception amongst schoo…
An inspector calls! School leaders’ perceptions of inspection in Wales
Accountability in education takes many forms. One of the most prominent in the Welsh context is school inspection, which is considered an important measure of school performance and a way of holding schools accountable for the public money they receive. However, inspections are not accepted as adding value to the system without exception, and much has been written internationally about the negative impact of inspection on teachers and leaders. Th…
Atrocity Prevention and Response: Challenges for R2P
While longstanding critiques of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a Western interventionist doctrine are well known, this intervention argues that a new form of backlash politics to the R2P is emerging from key Western states that have long been its strongest advocates and supporters. This intervention argues that this trend is disconcerting in that it risks returning to an international politics of complacency whereby states are no longer w…
A new dawn or false hope? Exploring the early implementation of Curriculum for Wales
This discussion paper explores the evolution of Wales’ new national curriculum. Launched in 2022 and reflective of a new international trend in curriculum reform, Curriculum for Wales is founded on the idea that key decisions related to teaching and learning are best made in schools and at the site of practice. The principle of subsidiarity is championed as a way of empowering teachers and encouraging local ownership within the confines of a much…
The Dream and the Reality
In this contribution the author takes stock of the extent to which R2P has both met and fallen short of the dreams of its founders since its endorsement by the 2005 World Summit. As an effective reactive counter-force to atrocity crimes already under way, R2P’s record has been disappointing. But as an institutional catalyst and preventive mechanism it has been generally successful, and as a normative force it has been, and remains, very influenti…
Louis Benassi: Filmmaker and curator (1961-2020)
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Testing times: Success, failure and fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution
Testing times: success, failure and fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution." Journal of Education Policy, 32(6), pp. 871–872
Commonwealth Diplomacy and the End of Apartheid
This article recounts the struggle that those fighting for an end to apartheid in South Africa faced and the role that the Commonwealth played in that struggle. The author recounts the contribution of the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke administrations in Australia in bringing down the apartheid regime but stresses that these leaders chose the Commonwealth as their primary vehicle for change. In the author’s view, the fight against apartheid was, argua…
Nuclear Deterrence in A sia and the P acific
The Asia Pacific region includes six of the world's nine nuclear‐armed states, and in all of them relevant policymakers, still caught in a Cold War mindset, continue to believe in nuclear deterrence as a force for peace and stability, perceiving nuclear disarmament to be not only unachievable, but undesirable. But—whether the context is major powers seeking to neutralise threats from each other (United States, Russia, China and India), non‐nuclea…
Ethnopolitical Conflict: When is it Right to Intervene
Of all the internal conflicts and mass atrocity crimes of recent decades that have exercised \nthe world’s conscience, and generated intense debate about when it is right for others to \nintervene in them in some way or another, most have had an ethnopolitical character in \nwhole or in part. Certainly not all such conflicts or crimes have their roots in grievance, \nfear or ambition based on ethnicity, race, nationality or religion—or whatever e…
Response to Reviews by Michael Barnett, Chris Brown and Robert Jackson
This article is part of a forum on Gareth Evans' book, The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2008). The forum features contributions from Michael Barnett, Chris Brown and Robert Jackson, and it concludes with a response from Gareth Evans
The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come … and Gone
How far did the unanimous agreement on the responsibility to protect at the 2005 UN World Summit really mark the international community's acceptance of a new norm supporting collective action — including ultimately military action — when governments through either incapacity or ill-will fail to protect their own people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity? This article describes the rapid initial emergence and …
North Korea on the Brink: Struggle For Survival
Abbreviations Map Preamble 1 North Korea in Context 2 Drawing the Iron Curtain 3 Kim's Korea 4 A Life in Wonderland 5 Struggle for Survival 6 WMD Paranoia Rules 7 Negotiating Its Place 8 Changing Regime or Regime Change? Recommended Reading and Viewing Index
Crimes against humanity: Overcoming Indifference
Gareth Evans is President and Chief Executive of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (Crisis Group), an independent multinational non-governmental organization that conducts field-based a
When is it Right to Fight
Gareth Evans is President of the International Crisis Group, a Member of the UN SecretaryGeneral’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001. He was Foreign Minister of Australia from 1988 to 1996. This article is based on the 2004 Cyril Foster Lecture, delivered at Oxford University on 10 May 2004
The Responsibility to Protect
The FP Interview: True Believer
Intervention and State Sovereignty: Breaking New Ground
It has been a long time since the international community was united and confident in its handling of complex, human-made emergencies. The generally acknowledged success of the military response to Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and of peacekeeping operations such as those in Cambodia, Namibia, and Mozambique in the early 1990s, gave way to the debacle of the international in Somalia in 1992-1993; the pathetically inadequate response …
Collected Papers
Things Without the Mind—A Commentary upon Chapter Two of Strawson’s Individuals
What is the connection between the idea of an objective world and the idea of a spatial world? If someone has a conception of a world, something whose existence and operations are independent of his experience of it, must he thereby conceive of a system of spatial relations in which both he and the phenomena he experiences have a place? This question can be put another way.
Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge
In his provocative paper, Crispin Wright threw down several challenges to philosophers like myself who have been attracted by, and supposed themselves to be participating in, the enterprise of constructing a systematic theory of meaning for a natural language. I shall have time this evening to take up only one of his challenges, which I hope is the most important.
Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass
(1995). Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 99-113
Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction
A number of recent studies underline the novel's role in the formation and consolidation of American middle-class identity (Brodhead 1991; Davidson 1986; Hansen 1991 a, 1991b; Lewis 1987). However, when these studies turn to assess the politics of sentimental novels such as William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy ([1789] 1969), Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette ([1794] 1986), and Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple ([1797] 1986), they either …
The Responsibility to Protect
Cooperative Security and Intrastate Conflict
The international community has conspicuously failed to maintain the peace since the end of the Cold War. Hopes that the United Nations might play a much more pervasive and effective security role--bolstered by the success of peace enforcement against Iraq and the large peacekeeping operations in Namibia and Cambodia--were brought rapidly back to earth by apparent U.N. impotence to intervene quickly or usefully in Bosnia, Somalia, or Rwanda. More…
The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come … and Gone
How far did the unanimous agreement on the responsibility to protect at the 2005 UN World Summit really mark the international community's acceptance of a new norm supporting collective action — including ultimately military action — when governments through either incapacity or ill-will fail to protect their own people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity? This article describes the rapid initial emergence and …
When is it Right to Fight
Gareth Evans is President of the International Crisis Group, a Member of the UN SecretaryGeneral’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001. He was Foreign Minister of Australia from 1988 to 1996. This article is based on the 2004 Cyril Foster Lecture, delivered at Oxford University on 10 May 2004
Nuclear Deterrence in A sia and the P acific
The Asia Pacific region includes six of the world's nine nuclear‐armed states, and in all of them relevant policymakers, still caught in a Cold War mindset, continue to believe in nuclear deterrence as a force for peace and stability, perceiving nuclear disarmament to be not only unachievable, but undesirable. But—whether the context is major powers seeking to neutralise threats from each other (United States, Russia, China and India), non‐nuclea…
Intervention and State Sovereignty: Breaking New Ground
It has been a long time since the international community was united and confident in its handling of complex, human-made emergencies. The generally acknowledged success of the military response to Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and of peacekeeping operations such as those in Cambodia, Namibia, and Mozambique in the early 1990s, gave way to the debacle of the international in Somalia in 1992-1993; the pathetically inadequate response …
Atrocity Prevention and Response: Challenges for R2P
While longstanding critiques of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a Western interventionist doctrine are well known, this intervention argues that a new form of backlash politics to the R2P is emerging from key Western states that have long been its strongest advocates and supporters. This intervention argues that this trend is disconcerting in that it risks returning to an international politics of complacency whereby states are no longer w…
A new dawn or false hope? Exploring the early implementation of Curriculum for Wales
This discussion paper explores the evolution of Wales’ new national curriculum. Launched in 2022 and reflective of a new international trend in curriculum reform, Curriculum for Wales is founded on the idea that key decisions related to teaching and learning are best made in schools and at the site of practice. The principle of subsidiarity is championed as a way of empowering teachers and encouraging local ownership within the confines of a much…
The Dream and the Reality
In this contribution the author takes stock of the extent to which R2P has both met and fallen short of the dreams of its founders since its endorsement by the 2005 World Summit. As an effective reactive counter-force to atrocity crimes already under way, R2P’s record has been disappointing. But as an institutional catalyst and preventive mechanism it has been generally successful, and as a normative force it has been, and remains, very influenti…
Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass
(1995). Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 99-113
Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction
A number of recent studies underline the novel's role in the formation and consolidation of American middle-class identity (Brodhead 1991; Davidson 1986; Hansen 1991 a, 1991b; Lewis 1987). However, when these studies turn to assess the politics of sentimental novels such as William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy ([1789] 1969), Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette ([1794] 1986), and Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple ([1797] 1986), they either …
Australia's foreign policy and the environment
(1990). Australia's foreign policy and the environment. The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 315, pp. 297-305
Benign Discrimination and the Right to Equality
Governments have been increasingly preoccupied with the task of reconciling claims to preferential treatment with the principle of equality. The social and philosophical issues raised by this apparent paradox are considered, and the compatibility of benign discrimination with the concept of equality demonstrated by developing a complex normative notion of equality. An analysis is then undertaken of the various attempts made by lawyers, in nearly …
Pronouns, Quantifiers, and Relative Clauses (l)
Some philosophers, notably Professors Quine and Geach, have stressed the analogies they see between pronouns of the vernacular and the bound variables of quantification theory. Geach, indeed, once maintained that ‘for a philosophical theory of reference, then, it is all one whether we consider bound variables or pronouns of the vernacular'. This slightly overstates Geach's positition since he recognizes that some pronouns of ordinary language do …
To the Precipice and Back: "Reflecting on the 1975 Australian "Constitutional Crisis
The varieties of reference
Australia and World Capitalism
Labor Essays 1981
The Varieties of Reference
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Varieties of Reference. By Gareth Evans. (Ed. with a preface by John McDowell.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 418. Price £15.00, pb. £5.95) Gregory Mcculloch Gregory Mcculloch University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 137, October 1984, Pages 515–518, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219077 Publishe…
Collected papers
This volume collects thirteen papers by one of the leading philosophers of his generation, who died prematurely in 1980. The majority deal with the philosophy of language, informed by a lively sense of the interconnections with issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind
The Varieties of Reference
Gareth Evans: Collected Papers
Collected Papers
Australia's foreign policy and the environment
(1990). Australia's foreign policy and the environment. The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 315, pp. 297-305
The world after the cold war—Community and cooperation: An Australian view
Cooperative Security and Intrastate Conflict
The international community has conspicuously failed to maintain the peace since the end of the Cold War. Hopes that the United Nations might play a much more pervasive and effective security role--bolstered by the success of peace enforcement against Iraq and the large peacekeeping operations in Namibia and Cambodia--were brought rapidly back to earth by apparent U.N. impotence to intervene quickly or usefully in Bosnia, Somalia, or Rwanda. More…
Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass
(1995). Australia in East Asia and the Asia‐pacific: Beyond the looking glass. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 99-113
Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction
A number of recent studies underline the novel's role in the formation and consolidation of American middle-class identity (Brodhead 1991; Davidson 1986; Hansen 1991 a, 1991b; Lewis 1987). However, when these studies turn to assess the politics of sentimental novels such as William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy ([1789] 1969), Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette ([1794] 1986), and Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple ([1797] 1986), they either …
Collected Papers
Things Without the Mind—A Commentary upon Chapter Two of Strawson’s Individuals
What is the connection between the idea of an objective world and the idea of a spatial world? If someone has a conception of a world, something whose existence and operations are independent of his experience of it, must he thereby conceive of a system of spatial relations in which both he and the phenomena he experiences have a place? This question can be put another way.
Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge
In his provocative paper, Crispin Wright threw down several challenges to philosophers like myself who have been attracted by, and supposed themselves to be participating in, the enterprise of constructing a systematic theory of meaning for a natural language. I shall have time this evening to take up only one of his challenges, which I hope is the most important.
The FP Interview: True Believer
Intervention and State Sovereignty: Breaking New Ground
It has been a long time since the international community was united and confident in its handling of complex, human-made emergencies. The generally acknowledged success of the military response to Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and of peacekeeping operations such as those in Cambodia, Namibia, and Mozambique in the early 1990s, gave way to the debacle of the international in Somalia in 1992-1993; the pathetically inadequate response …
The Responsibility to Protect
When is it Right to Fight
Gareth Evans is President of the International Crisis Group, a Member of the UN SecretaryGeneral’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001. He was Foreign Minister of Australia from 1988 to 1996. This article is based on the 2004 Cyril Foster Lecture, delivered at Oxford University on 10 May 2004
Crimes against humanity: Overcoming Indifference
Gareth Evans is President and Chief Executive of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (Crisis Group), an independent multinational non-governmental organization that conducts field-based a
North Korea on the Brink: Struggle For Survival
Abbreviations Map Preamble 1 North Korea in Context 2 Drawing the Iron Curtain 3 Kim's Korea 4 A Life in Wonderland 5 Struggle for Survival 6 WMD Paranoia Rules 7 Negotiating Its Place 8 Changing Regime or Regime Change? Recommended Reading and Viewing Index
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