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Essays Of A Citizen: From A National Security State To Democracy

Marcus G. Raskin
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
Winter 1991/92
Essays Of A Citizen: From A National Security State To Democracy
Marcus G. Raskin
Sharpe
1991
321 pp.
$27.50
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The author has long been an articulate critic of rigid and excessively militarized foreign policy. Here he brings together a selection of essays written over the last 15 years. One particularly timely chapter contains the text of a "Draft Treaty for a Comprehensive Program for Common Security and General Disarmament." It deserves careful attention.

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