European Security, NATO–Russia Relations, And The Post–Cold War Order

Mary Sarotte’s book is not really about the evolution of European security in the 1990s. An analysis of that topic would be dominated by Balkan wars, new insecurities, historic disarmament of the most militarized region in the world, and unprecedented arms control from the Atlantic to the Urals. It would describe how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) transformed from an organization preparing to wage World War III to an instrument of latent reassurance, retaining a much-reduced U.S. connection to Europe’s security. That is not what her book is about.

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