Not One Inch

America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

Not One Inch
M E Sarotte
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11 Oct 2022 US
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9780300268034
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Thirty years after the Soviet Union' s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics between the Cold War and COVID Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we move NATO not one inch eastward. Controversy erupted almost immediately over this 1990 exchange-but more important was the decade afterward, when the words took on new meaning. Gorbachev let his Germany go, but Washington rethought the bargain, not least after the Soviet Union' s own collapse in December 1991. Washington realized it could not just win big, but win bigger. Not one inch of territory need be off limits to NATO. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this book uses new evidence and interviews to show how, in the decade that culminated in Vladimir Putin' s rise to power, the United States and Russia undermined a potentially lasting partnership. Prize-winning historian M. E. Sarotte shows what went wrong.
"Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents-including many that have never been published before-which both fill in and complicate settled narratives on both sides. "-Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker "Prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte. . . charts all the private discussions within the western alliance and with Russia over enlargement and reveals Russia as powerless to slow the ratchet effect of the opening of Nato' s door. "-Patrick Wintour, The Guardian "Sarotte is the unofficial dean of ' end of Cold War' studies. . . . With her latest book, she tackles head-on the not-controversial-at-all questions about NATO' s eastward growth and the effect it had on Russia' s relations with the west. I look forward to the contretemps this book will inevitably produce. "-Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post "' Not one inch to the east' . . . [is] a history so often repeated that it' s practically conventional wisdom. Mary Sarotte . . . [describes] what actually happened [between the US and Russia], and how both the reality and distortion really shape today' s events. "-Max Fisher, New York Times, from "The Interpreter" newsletter "There' s no one who has researched the relevant sources more thoroughly than historian Mary E. Sarotte, who has just published Not One Inch. . . successfully reconstructing the most significant days [in NATO expansion]. "-Stefan Kornelius, Suddeutsche Zeitung "A riveting account of fateful choices to expand NATO and their consequences for relations with Russia today. "-Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' s Trap? "Sarotte deftly unpacks one of the most important strategic moves of the post-Cold War Era: the decision to enlarge NATO. Her detailed history of the 1990s is groundbreaking, and her assessment of the impacts of NATO expansion on European security is balanced and nuanced. A major accomplishment and a must-read. "-Charles A. Kupchan, Georgetown University and the Council on Foreign Relations "Not One Inch will be considered the best-documented and best-argued history of the NATO expansion during the crucial 1989-1999 period. "-Norman Naimark, author of Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty "Sarotte explores how and why NATO expanded and relations with Russia deteriorated in the post-Cold War world. It is an important book, well documented and told. "-Joseph Nye Jr. , author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump "Mary Sarotte' s insightful story of NATO' s enlargement in the 1990s will be the foundation for debates about lessons among policy-makers as well as a fascinating read for people interested in recent history. "-Robert B. Zoellick, US negotiator for German unification and author of America in the World: A History of U. S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
M. E. Sarotte is the Kravis Professor of Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author, among other books, of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall.
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ISBN-13: 9780300268034
Published: 11 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 568

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