...Holger Nehring Protests against NATO’s plans to station US missiles on European soil created a crisis for the alliance in the last years of the Cold War. An account of the complicated bargaining among the United States and its European allies at that time has striking parallels with the present...

...Tuomas Forsberg In May 2022, Finland and Sweden both announced that they had decided to apply for membership in NATO. This was a dramatic shift in both countries’ foreign and security policies, but a logical consequence of their European Union membership and close partnership with NATO in the post...

... culture autocracy democracy communism Crimea Ukraine NATO Boris Yeltsin Boris Nemtsov Dmitry Medvedev 251 Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for so long that it s hard to imagine Russia without him. He has been Russia s central decision maker as president or prime minister for nearly two...

... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... Pakistan Taliban Haqqani Network al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden NATO United States Tribal Areas Balochistan Jamiat-e Islami-yi Afghanistan General Zia ul Haq George Bush Barack Obama 136 Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing...

... of California Michael Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones 10 Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for Ameri- can foreign policy but never exerted...

... Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of en-ergy were largely governed by the assump- tion...

...Amanda Paul Ankara is cozying up to Moscow in a momentary fit of pique with the West, but economic and security realities make it likely that Turkey will stay in NATO's camp. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Amanda Paul Turkey...

... The Regents of the University of California Pavel Baev Russia Vladimir Putin military Air Force navy nuclear arsenal foreign policy Ukraine Donbas Crimea Baltic Sea Syria Islamic State NATO Cold War Chechen War Russia s propensity to use military force as an instrument...

...-Busse Europe European Union Eastern Germany Angela Merkel Hungary Viktor Orbán Greece immigration asylum Christianity Islam NATO France National Front Britain UK Independence Party 89 Eastern Europe remains poorer and less democratically experienced than West- ern Europe...

... at home while his foreign policy has raised blood pressures in the capitals of NATO s member states. At the center of Putin s macho aura is his image as a tough guy who will not allow Western countries to weaken Russia by dictating what its domestic and foreign policies should be. While masculinity has...

... USAID corruption ghani ashraf Abdullah marshall Kabul corridor NATO Najibullah 137 If the international community wants to secure the real gains it has made in Afghanistan, it needs to stop obsessing about the troop drawdown and begin fig- uring out how to avert the funding drawdown...

... constitutional Flemish Belgium Flanders Brussels Eurozone UKIP independence referendum EU crises minority Syriza austerity integration xenophobia nativists rearranged merkel Maastricht federation anxieties Ukraine NATO war incorporation security 101 There are dangerous sparks...

...Mark Kramer Nearly every senior official in Poland and the Baltic countries expressed great unease. Political leaders and military commanders in the region increasingly warned that Putin was intent on undermining NATO's resolve to protect their countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights...

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.... If Russia was humiliated in the traumatic 1990s, it was humiliated by other Russians the oligarchs and mafiosi who stole the national wealth. NATO has expanded since 1991, but has not been encircling Russia in recent years. After the initial Russia reset by the Obama administration in 2009, there were...

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...Richard Giragosian There are signs that Moscow may now seek to halt Armenia's deepening of ties with NATO and target Armenian reformers. 284 There are signs that Moscow may now seek to halt Armenia s deepening of ties with NATO and target Armenian reformers. Armenia s Search for Independence...

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