Jonathan Sumption

Was Nato expansion worth the risk?

With access to previously classified files, M.E Sarotte analyses the West’s great gamble after the fall of the Berlin wall

Skilful politicians who outmanoeuvred successive Russian leaders: James Baker and Helmut Kohl, January 1991. [Alamy]

  • Not One Inch: America, Russia and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

    M.E. Sarotte

    Yale University Press, pp. 568, £25

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