Securing Peace in Europe

Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-21771-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Woodrow Wilson Center Series

After the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies faced crucial questions. Could Russia, their old adversary, be integrated into the liberal international order? What roles should former Soviet republics and satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe play in the Euro-Atlantic security system? These questions have taken on renewed significance since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin has portrayed Russia as the victim of Western expansionism.

This deeply researched book offers new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state for seven years under President Bill Clinton and the key US diplomatic broker for the former USSR. Stephan Kieninger traces the Clinton administration’s efforts to engage Russia and enlarge NATO at the same time, as elements of a new European security architecture. Drawing on Talbott’s diaries, as well as US and European archives and extensive interviews with former government officials, he sheds light on NATO’s opening, its missions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and other vexed issues. Kieninger argues that a careful look at Talbott’s statecraft rebuts Putin’s claims that the West exploited Russia’s weakness after the Cold War, demonstrating that the Clinton administration and its NATO allies sought to include Russia at every step. An illuminating and comprehensive account of US diplomacy during the Clinton years, Securing Peace in Europe provides vital insight into the complex relations between Russia and the West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kieninger, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Javier Solana
Preface: Formative Years and Journalism
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. U.S. Foreign Policy and the European Security Mess
2. Engaging Russia and Enlarging NATO
3. Building a New Security Architecture
4. The NATO-Russia Founding Act and Its Aftermath
5. Russia’s Financial Crisis and the End of Reform
6. The Kosovo War as a Game Changer
7. Putin and the Crisis of U.S.-Russia Relations
Conclusion
Acknowledgments and Note on Sources
Notes
Archives and Interviews
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephan Kieninger is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964–1975 (2016) and The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (2018).