In Essence: Reaching Out to the Russians
THE SOURCE: “NATO’s Final Frontier” by Charles A. Kupchan, in Foreign Affairs, May–June 2010. Lord Hastings Ismay, the first secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reportedly once said that the organization’s purpose was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” But times have changed. Today, NATO is making a [...]
