A leading foreign policy expert reveals how the tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics. This book was declared one of the best picks by Foreign Affairs in 2021 and won the Pushkin House Book Prize.
"Sarotte has the evidence: her authentic narrative is based on thousands of documents, letters, notes, and other formerly secret documents - including many that have never been published before - which both complement and complicate the established narratives of both sides." - Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker.
"The most interesting and carefully documented narrative of this East-West diplomacy period that is available." - Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs.
The phrase "not one inch," with which Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical agreement to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall, immediately sparked controversies. However, more important was the following decade, when these words acquired new meaning.
Gorbachev left his Germany, but Washington reevaluated the agreement, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Washington realized that it could not only win big but win even bigger. Not one inch of territory needed to be off-limits for NATO.
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book uses new evidence and interviews to show how, in the decade that culminated with Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the United States and Russia undermined a potential lasting cooperation. Award-winning historian M. E. Sarotte analyzes what went wrong.
Pages: 568, Year of Publication: 1216, Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm.
