Europe’s Eastern Promise: Rethinking NATO and EU Enlargement
December 21, 2007
In the early 1990s, after the Iron Curtain lifted, Western leaders seized a historic opportunity to open the doors of NATO and the European Union to post-communist central and eastern Europe. This accomplishment was the result of a common U.S.-European grand strategy that was controversial and fiercely debated at the time. However, Current policy toward Europe's periphery is increasingly out of date.
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Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February, Volume 87 No. 1. Copyright 2008 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.



