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  • Not One Inch

  • America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
  • By: M.E. Sarotte
  • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
  • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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Not One Inch

By: M.E. Sarotte
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
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Summary

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021

"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." (Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post)

"The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available." (Andrew Moravscik, Foreign Affairs)

Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House - Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.

Vladimir Putin swears that Washington betrayed a promise that NATO would move "not one inch" eastward and justifies renewed confrontation as a necessary response to the alliance's illegitimate "deployment of military infrastructure to our borders." But the United States insists that neither President George H. W. Bush nor any other leader made such a promise.

Pulling back the curtain on U.S.-Russian relations in the critical years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and Putin's rise to power, prize-winning Cold War historian M. E. Sarotte reveals the bitter clashes over NATO behind the facade of friendship and comes to a sobering conclusion: the damage did not have to happen. In this deeply researched and compellingly written book, Sarotte shows what went wrong.

©2021 M. E. Sarotte (P)2022 Tantor
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Packed full of interesting information

This was a very well researched book. A coherent and densely informative narrative. My only faults with it are that the author often fails to read between the lines in terms of the intentions of chief policy makers, particularly in Washington, and I was disappointed by the conclusion. Instead of remaining objective, the author's closing remarks are incredibly politically one-sided. Overall, though, I learned a fair amount from it.

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excellent

excellent introduction to today's problems with Russia, told from history over the last 30 years..

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Excellent and balanced study

Excellent analysis of the NATO enlargement which you can use also as a part of the background of the current East-West confrontation and the war in the Ukraine. Excellent narration.

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Best book on making post Cold War order in Europe

The best book on the 1990s expansion of Nato. Feels like you're in the room with the people who made all the key decisions. Amazing level of work with primary sources, totally a must read.

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Outstanding and most relevant to now

Excellent and I recommend- note ‘unabridged’ - does not include key maps or charts - which should have been added as a PDF - which is a common practice now.

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