Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror

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.

Foreword by Lord Hoffmann of Chedworth
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Maps
List of Contributors

PART 1: APPRAISALS
1.‘Dare the Deepening Tide’: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Revolution of our Times
by Adam Roberts
2.Sketch of the Life of Lakshman Kadirgamar
by Sarath Silva
3.Lakshman Kadirgamar: The Lawyer Turned Politician
by Sinha Ratnatunga
4.A Duty of Service in an Age of Terror
by Chris Patten
5.Reflections on a ‘Citizen of the World’
by Karl Inderfurth, Peter Burleigh & Sean Donnelly
6.A True South Asian
by Shivshankar Menon & Nirupama Rao

PART 2: DOCUMENTS
1.Report to Amnesty International on my Visit to South Vietnam
Colombo, 1 January 1964
2.Why I Decided to Enter Politics
Colombo, July 1994
3.Human Rights and Armed Conflict
Kotelawala Defence Academy, 19 March 1996
4.The Global Impact of International Terrorism.
Chatham House, London, 15 April 1998
5.The Terrorism Challenge to Democracies.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC, 13 September 2000
6.Preventing the Recurrence of Harm to War-Affected Children
Winnipeg, 16 September 2000
7.Address to UN General Assembly
New York, 18 September 2000
8.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 Agreement
Speech from the opposition, Parliament, Colombo, 8 May 2003
10.Third World Democracy in Action: The Sri Lanka Experience
Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 12 May 2004
11.The Peaceful Ascendancy of China: A South Asian Perspective
China Institute of International Studies, Beijing, 28 December 2004

Index