Myths and realities of putinism and NATO expansion
Zubok, V. M.
(2023).
Myths and realities of putinism and NATO expansion.
In
Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War
(pp. 145-159).
Springer International (Firm).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23364-7_5
(2023).
Myths and realities of putinism and NATO expansion.
In
Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War
(pp. 145-159).
Springer International (Firm).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23364-7_5
The Russia-Ukraine war that dramatically escalated on February 24, 2022, with Putin's decision to launch a full-scale invasion, changed the political, moral, and academic environment for the discussion about NATO's role in Europe and the story of its post-1991 expansion to the East. In the chorus of indignation and condemnation of the Russian invasion, it became near-impossible to speak and write about the causes and consequences of the NATO expansion in a balanced, dispassionate way. Suddenly we have a war-driven consensus that NATO had nothing to do with the origins of the war in Eastern Europe.