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

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

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 296
Release Date:: 2019-11-14
Publication Date:: 2019-11-14
Publisher:: Continnuum-3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0755601017
ISBN13:: 9780755601011
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 453 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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