What Washington Got Wrong About NATO Expansion in the 1990s
The United States engaged Russia on secondary matters while antagonizing it on vital issues.
Joshua Shifrinson is an associate professor of international policy with the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and a nonresident senior fellow with the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy program. A graduate of Brandeis University and MIT, he is the author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts and co-editor (with Jim Goldgeier) of Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War.
The United States engaged Russia on secondary matters while antagonizing it on vital issues.
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