Mistaken Identity

Issue Date October 2008
Volume 19
Issue 4
Page Numbers 169-172
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A review of Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky.

About the Author

Marc F. Plattner, founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy. He also serves as cochair of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Political Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University.

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