Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror

''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 pa...