Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson Center) - Softcover

Kieninger, Stephan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231217714 ISBN 13: 9780231217712

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

After the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies faced crucial questions. Could Russia, their old adversary, be integrated into the liberal international order? What roles should former Soviet republics and satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe play in the Euro-Atlantic security system? These questions have taken on renewed significance since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin has portrayed Russia as the victim of Western expansionism.

This deeply researched book offers new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state for seven years under President Bill Clinton and the key US diplomatic broker for the former USSR. Stephan Kieninger traces the Clinton administration’s efforts to engage Russia and enlarge NATO at the same time, as elements of a new European security architecture. Drawing on Talbott’s diaries, as well as US and European archives and extensive interviews with former government officials, he sheds light on NATO’s opening, its missions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and other vexed issues. Kieninger argues that a careful look at Talbott’s statecraft rebuts Putin’s claims that the West exploited Russia’s weakness after the Cold War, demonstrating that the Clinton administration and its NATO allies sought to include Russia at every step. An illuminating and comprehensive account of US diplomacy during the Clinton years, Securing Peace in Europe provides vital insight into the complex relations between Russia and the West.

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Stephan Kieninger is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964–1975 (2016) and The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (2018).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0231217714
• ISBN 13: 9780231217712
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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