NATO-Russia Relations
NATO-Russia Relations

Summary/Abstract: This is a study of the nature of relations between NATO and the Russian Federation (RF) nearly two decades after the end of the Cold War – a period which was short but which put human civilization at imminent risk during those brief four decades because the East, headed by the Soviet Union, and the West, headed by the United States, were locked in a potentially suicidal confrontation throughout those decades. In this confrontation the United States-led North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, both in possession of the most advanced weapons, headed by nuclear weapons, that mankind proved itself capable of inventing and developing until then, faced each other “eyeball-to-eyeball” in the heart of Europe along the East- West dividing line. The Cold War reached its terminal state precisely because the division of Europe, the root cause of the Cold War, was first terminated by President Mikhail Gorbachev. It was this fundamental development that since has complicated life for NATO by depriving it of a readily identifiable, robust adversary and thus of a strategic-military rationale.

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