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The Kremlin has sought to establish an exclusive Russian sphere of influence in the nations lying between Russia and the EU, from Georgia in 2008 to Ukraine in 2014 and Belarus in 2020. It has extended its control by means of military intervention, territorial annexation, economic pressure and covert activities. Moscow seeks to justify this behaviour by referring to an alleged threat from NATO and the Alliances eastward enlargement. In the rhetoric of the Kremlin, NATO expansion is the main source for Moscows stand-off with the West. This collection of essays and analyses by prominent politicians, diplomats, and scholars from the US, Russia, and Europe provides personal perspectives on the sources of the Russian-Western estrangement. They draw on historical experience, including the Russian-Western controversies that intensified with NATO's eastward expansion in the 1990s, and reflect on possible perspectives of reconciliation within the renewed transatlantic relationship. The volume touches upon alleged and real security guarantees for the countries of Eastern and Central Europe as well as past and current deficits in the Western strategy for dealing with an increasingly hostile Russia. Thus, it contributes to the ongoing Western debate on which policies towards Russia can help to overcome the deep current divisions and to best meet Europes future challenges.
Contents
Foreword: A Europe Whole and Free Will Not Be Possible Without Russia; Introduction; Looking for Historical Unlocking: Issues of Strategic Stability; Nuclear Deterrence: A Guarantee or Threat to Strategic Stability?; 50 Years Ago: Kennedy, Brandt, NixonA Model for 21st Century Statecraft?; A Great Prize, But Not the Main Prize: British Internal Deliberations on Not-Losing Russia, 19931995; The Clinton Administration and Reshaping Europe; Russia and NATO: Security Guarantees as a Strategic Challenge for Central and Eastern Europe; Central European Security and Russia; The Ukraine Conflict: Lessons for NATO, Kyiv and Their Future Relations; Damage Control: The Breach of the Budapest Memorandum and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime; Lost and Real Chances in Western-Ukrainian-Russian Relations: An Interview; Russia as a Security Challenge of Tomorrow: Some Clues; Strategic Decentering: Moscows Ideological Rhetoric and its Strategic Unconscious, 20122020; Foundations of Current and Future Security Relations Between Russia and NATO Member States: Narratives, Capabilities, Perceptions and Misperceptions; Cooperation vs. Confrontation: German-Russian Security Relations Between Geopolitical Poles; On the Misperception of Russias Foreign and Security Policies; Russian Military Policy and Moscows Approaches Towards the West; Concluding Remarks.
