Gareth Evans is president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, based in Brussels. A former foreign minister of Australia, he is also co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He is the author of several books, including Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All.
Looking back two decades, the pace and intensity of global interaction have surpassed the predictions of even the most globally minded, and there is no strong ground for believing that trend will reverse over the next two decades. The ideological and geopolitical divides of the twentieth century look mostly now irrelevant.
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