Not one inch : America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate / M.E. Sarotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarotte, M. E., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University

The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

United States.

International relations.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 550 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Not 1 inch

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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 will move NATO not one inch eastward. Controversy erupted almost immediately over this 1990 exchange-but more important was the decade to come, 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 needed to 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I HARVEST AND STORM, 1989

92

1. Two Dresden Nights

2. To Hell with That

3. Crossing the Line

4. Oblivion and Opportunity

pt. II CLEARING, 1993

94

5. Squaring the Triangle

6. Rise and Fall

pt. III FROST, 1995

99

7. A Terrible Responsibility

8. Cost per Inch

9. Only the Beginning

10. Carving Out the Future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-538) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sarotte, M.E. Not one inch.

ISBN:

9780300259933

030025993X

OCLC:

1285278105