In democracy's shadow : the secret world of national security / edited by Marcus G. Raskin and Carl LeVan. - New York : Nation Books, 2005 - 340p.; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction: No democracy, no security / National security state and the tragedy of empire / The centrality of the atomic bomb / The Cold War and the fate of democratic culture / The nuclear crucible / The nuclear legacy of the Cold War / The Iraq War and the future of international law / Weapons of mass destruction and human rights / Cold War continuum / A report on NAFTA and the state of the maquilas / Courts and universities as institutions in the national security state / The Pentagon’s welfare budget / Security’s conquest of federal law enforcement / The seeds of secrecy, then and now / The national security state, war, and Congress / Myth versus hypothesis / Out of the shadows / Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- Gar Alperovitz and Kai Bird -- Norman Birnbaum -- Terrence Edward Paupp -- John Steinbruner and Jeffrey Lewis -- Richard Falk -- Peter Weiss and John Burroughs -- William Blum -- Saul Landau -- Anabel L. Dwyer and David J. Dwyer -- Seymour Melman -- Peter Raven-Hansen -- Anna K. Nelson -- Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- Norman Mailer -- Marcus G. Raskin.

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United States--Military policy.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

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