Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion

| Spring 2016

Summary

Co-winner of the 2017 Article Award given by the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).

During the 1990 German reunification negotiations, did the United States promise the Soviet Union that it would not expand NATO into Eastern Europe? Although no written agreement exists, archival materials reveal that U.S. officials did indeed offer the Soviets informal non-expansion assurances, while keeping open the possibility of expansion and seeking to maximize U.S. power in post–Cold War Europe.

Read: Joshua Shifrinson's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times.

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For Academic Citation: Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz. “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, vol. 40. no. 4. (Spring 2016):
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