Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.Christian F. Ostermann is Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.

• Introduction - NATO: Past & Present 1. ‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995 2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992 3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement 4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership 5. Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s 6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group 7. The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox 8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc 9. NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations

Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.Christian F. Ostermann is Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.

• Introduction - NATO: Past & Present 1. ‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995 2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992 3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement 4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership 5. Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s 6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group 7. The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox 8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc 9. NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations

Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.Christian F. Ostermann is Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.

• Introduction - NATO: Past & Present 1. ‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995 2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992 3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement 4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership 5. Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s 6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group 7. The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox 8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc 9. NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations