Gareth Evans
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2009
Evans is one of the leading intellectual forces behind the doctrine of "the responsibility to protect" and this book provides a grand statement of the idea and describes the troubled world setting in which it emerged and its far-ranging implications.
Essay
Nov/Dec
2002
Throughout the humanitarian crises of the 1990s, the international community failed to come up with rules on how and when to intervene, and under whose authority. Despite the new focus on terrorism, these debates will not go away. The issue must be reframed as an argument not about the "right to intervene" but about the "reponsibility to protect" that all sovereign states owe to their citizens.
