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Informationen zum Autor Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy! a post he has held since July 2009! having been elected to the Fellowship of the Academy in 1990. He is a renowned expert in international relations! with research expertise in international security! international organizations and international law! including the laws of war. He is Senior Research Fellow! Department of Politics and International Relations! Oxford University! and an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College! Oxford. From 1986 to 2007 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University! and before that he held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and St Antony's College! Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at New York University! Tokyo University! the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He was knighted (KCMG ) in 2002 and has been a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board since 2003. His publications include: Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence; Hugo Grotius and International Relations; Documents on the Laws of War; The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 and Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present. 'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, foreshadowed his own assassination in 2005. He was an astute and brave thinker and practitioner on many key issues in international politics. Zusammenfassung 'For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.' Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, foreshadowed his own assassination in 2005. He was an astute and brave thinker and practitioner on many key issues in international politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Lord Hoffmann of ChedworthPreface and AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and MapsList of ContributorsPART 1: APPRAISALS1. ‘Dare the Deepening Tide’: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Revolution of our Timesby Adam Roberts2. Sketch of the Life of Lakshman Kadirgamarby Sarath Silva3. Lakshman Kadirgamar: The Lawyer Turned Politicianby Sinha Ratnatunga4. A Duty of Service in an Age of Terrorby Chris Patten5. Reflections on a ‘Citizen of the World’by Karl Inderfurth, Peter Burleigh & Sean Donnelly6. A True South Asianby Shivshankar Menon & Nirupama RaoPART 2: DOCUMENTS1. Report to Amnesty International on my Visit to South VietnamColombo, 1 January 19642. Why I Decided to Enter PoliticsColombo, July 19943. Human Rights and Armed ConflictKotelawala Defence Academy, 19 March 19964. The Global Impact of International Terrorism.Chatham House, London, 15 April 19985. The Terrorism Challenge to Democracies.Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC, 13 September 20006. Preventing the Recurrence of Harm to War-Affected ChildrenWinnipeg, 16 September 20007. Address to UN General AssemblyNew York, 18 September 20008. The Seven Sisters of South Asia: Where are they Going?Tenth Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, 11 January 2003 9. Flaws in the 2002 Ceasefire AgreementSpeech from the opposition, Parliament, Colombo, 8 May 2003 10. Third World Democracy in Action: The Sri Lanka ExperienceBrookings Institution, Washington DC, 12 May 200411. The Peaceful Ascendancy of China: A South Asian PerspectiveChina Institute of International Studies, Beijing, 28 December 2004Index...
