Book cover of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
Eastern Europe

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

Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House–Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington’s hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership. […Learn More]