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Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order

Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order

Roberts, Adam

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Political Studies, Book 41

Political BiographiesIndian & South Asian HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1848853076
ISBN13: 9781848853072
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Aug 20 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

'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.

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