Reviewed by Mustafa Qadri
Sunday, 21 Jun, 2009 | 10:04 AM PST |
‘Never again’ was the world’s reaction to the horrors of Hitler’s concentration camps. Sadly, those words continue to ring hollow over six decades later. In this timely book Gareth Evans, Australia’s foreign minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, charts international attempts to put an end to mass atrocities once and for all.
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Tags: book review · colonialism · crimes against humanity · Gareth Evans · genocide · mass atrocities · responsibility to protect
The following review of “Responsibility to Protect” by Gareth Evans appears in today’s The Australian newspaper:
Broadening the debate on intervention
The Responsibility to Protect
By Gareth Evans
Brookings, 349pp, $39.95
“NEVER again” was the world’s reaction to the horrors of Hitler’s concentration camps: more than six decades later, those words ring hollow.
In this timely book, Gareth Evans, Australia’s foreign minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, charts international attempts to put an end to mass atrocities once and for all.
[Read more →]
Tags: Cambodia · East Timor · Gareth Evans · genocide · Holocaust · International Crisis Group · mass atrocities · responsibility to protect