M. E. Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 550pp. $25.00 softcover and e-book.

M. E. Sarotte's Not One Inch: America, Russia and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate is a comprehensive and timely book. Meticulously citing official documents, memoirs of the principal actors, and her own interviews with key figures, Sarotte paints on a broad canvas the complex decision-making in the 1990s that led to the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and, in her view, the emergence of a post–Cold War stalemate.

This book could not have come at a better moment. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine now well into its third year, the West's newfound unity in arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia, and the entry of perennial neutral states Sweden and Finland into NATO as a shield from Russian aggression, it...

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