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Informationen zum Autor Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow for the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, and an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in the UK. He is also President of the British Academy.'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. Long before 9/11 he warned Western democracies that they were too passive about the activities on their soil of foreign terrorist movements and their front organizations. He was a strong advocate of democracy and human rights, conducting the first-ever Amnesty investigation into the problems of a particular country - Vietnam. He was uniquely effective in countering the propaganda campaigns of the separatist Tamil Tigers in his native Sri Lanka - the movement which ultimately took his life. This definitive work explores the continuing relevance of his ideas for the modern world. Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror presents Kadirgamar's distinctive voice in his major speeches. It also offers a convincing picture, by those who knew him, of a scholar-statesman who was both a realist and an idealist.He showed that these approaches can be combined in both thought and action. 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...
