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Perpetuating U.S. Preeminence: The 1990 Deals to "Bribe the Soviets Out" and Move NATO In
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The United States and West Germany made skillful use in 1990 of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's political weakness and his willingness to prioritize his country's financial woes over security concerns as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Washington and Bonn pursued a shared strategy of perpetuating U.S. preeminence in European security after the end of the Cold War. As multilingual evidence shows, they did so primarily by shielding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from potential competitors during an era of dramatic change in Europe. In particular, the United States and West Germany made skillful use in 1990 of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's political weakness and his willingness to prioritize his country's financial woes over security concerns. Washington and Bonn decided “to bribe the Soviets out,” as then Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates phrased it, and to move NATO eastward. The goal was to establish NATO as the main post–Cold War security institution before alternative structures could arise and potentially diminish U.S. influence. Admirers of a muscular U.S. foreign policy and of NATO will view this strategy as sound; critics will note that it alienated Russia and made NATO's later expansion possible. Ei...read more
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The Cold War: A New History
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Status Seekers: Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy
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Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas
TL;DR: The end of the Cold War has become a case study of major importance for scholars of international relations for numerous reasons Not least among these is that it helped spark a renaissance in the study of ideas in the aeld and contributed to the rise of constructivism as a major theoretical school in the 1990s as mentioned in this paper.