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Introduction

It is a testimony to the potential importance and to the credibility of Common Security,* the Report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues (the Palme Commission), that its recommendations should be subjected to critical examination and the arguments contained within it extended and brought up-to-date. I hope this examination will bring a renewed interest in the Report and its recommendations will be reinforced and implemented. Common Security was unusual in representing an agreement between authors as widely diverging in background and ideology as Cyrus Vance, the fo…