Russia vs. NATO: The New Cold War?

Listen to this episode from The Armchair Historian on Spotify. From Cold War promises to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, this documentary traces the decades-long tension between Russia and NATO. Explore disputed agreements over NATO expansion, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and flashpoints like Kosovo, Georgia, Crimea, and the Donbas War. See how post-Soviet politics, military alliances, and regional revolutions shaped Europe’s security and why the struggle between Moscow and NATO is far from over.Sign up for Armchair History TV today! https://armchairhistory.tv/supporters/videosMerchandise available at https://armchairhistory.tv/collections/allAndroid App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fourthwall.wla.armchairhistory IOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/armchair-history-tv/id6471108801Wishlist our next video game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878450/Master_of_Command_Seven_Years_War/Discord: https://discord.gg/thearmchairhistorianTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArmchairHist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/armchairhistorianshow Sources:Basu, Zachary, “U.S. to consider Russia's NATO proposal, but calls some demands "unacceptable",” Axios, 17 December 2021. https://www.axios.com/2021/12/17/russia-nato-ukraine-invasion Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change, Edition 2. London: Routledge, 2020.Black, J. L. “Russia and NATO Expansion Eastward: Red-Lining the Baltic States.” International Journal 54, no. 2 (1999): 249–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/40203375.Department of the United States Army. “Press Release - DEFENDER-Europe 21 activities begin this month, include two dozen nations”, 15 March 2021. https://www.europeafrica.army.mil/ArticleViewPressRelease/Article/2537359/press-release-defender-europe-21-activities-begin-this-month-include-two-dozen/Franekova, Anna. “Uneasy Expansion: NATO and Russia.” Harvard International Review 24, no. 3 (2002): 10–11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42762829.Iulian, Raluca Iulia. “A Quarter Century of NATO-Russia Relations”. CBU International Conference on Innovations in Science and Education. Prague, 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v5.998.Kumar, Rama Sampath. “From Kosovo to Georgia: The US, NATO and Russia.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 36 (2008): 24–27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277922.Marten, Kimberly. “The Growth of NATO-Russia Tensions.” Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO. Council on Foreign Relations, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep05770.9.NATO’s Return to Europe: Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond. Ed. Rebecca R. Moore and Damon Coletta. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2017.Russell, Alison Lawlor. “The Georgia-Russia War.” In Cyber Blockades, 96–127. Georgetown University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdsfj.10.Thompson, John M. and Christopher J. Ward. Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present, Edition 8. London: Routledge, 2018.Trachtenburg, Marc. "The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990: New Light on an Old Problem?" UCLA, Nov. 25, 2020.United Nations’ Treaty Series, “Text of the Budapest Memorandum regarding Ukraine”, Volume 3007, I-52241, registered 2 October 2014. https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdfU.S. Department of State, FOIA 199504567 (National Security Archive Flashpoints Collection, Box 38. “Memorandum of Conversation between James Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow”. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16115-document-04-memorandum-conversation-betweenU.S. Department of State, FOIA 199504567 (National Security Archive Flashpoints Collection, Box 38). “Memorandum of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker in Moscow.” https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16116-document-05-memorandum-conversation-betweenArmchair Team Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYjrtdKP67bvEH4UWOv-24_dwJGxZ395ZuczyKOUFNw/edit?usp=sharing