EAN: 9780300268034

NOT ONE INCH - AMERICA RUSSIA AND THE MAKING OF...

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America  NATO  and Russia
transformed geopolitics ● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House
Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts  as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of
memos  letters  briefs  and other once secret documents--including many that have never been
published before--which both fill in and complicate settled narratives on both sides."--Joshua
Yaffa  New Yorker "The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in
East-West diplomacy currently available."--Andrew Moravcsik  Foreign Affairs 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.

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