From the Dissolution of Soviet Union Toward the Annexation of Crimea
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2016

This chapter commences with an explication of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement which touched the territory of the former Warsaw Pact (1999) and continued even by the joining of three former Soviet republics in 2002. Eichler remembers the Western, namely American authors (neorealist as well as liberals) who warned that such expansion would provoke security fears of Russian elites and concludes that this change of epochal importance started a shift toward a negative peace