Date of Award
Summer 8-2-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Elidor Mëhilli
Second Advisor
Benjamin Hett
Academic Program Adviser
Karen Kern
Abstract
Recent years have seen a massive increase in available resources pertaining to US-Russian diplomacy in the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using these newly available resources including diplomatic cables, declassified transcripts, and personal correspondence between President Clinton of the United States and President Yeltsin of the Russian Federation the author attempts to illustrate how the White House missed a chance for reconciliation with Russia during the first Clinton term. Additionally, this paper illustrates how it was not merely bad diplomacy that led to a resumption of Cold War hostilities, but willful policy in Washington that sought to integrate Russia into an American dominated international system rather than seek a true diplomatic partnership. Furthermore the author argues that it was the US insistence on an expanded vision of NATO's role in post-Cold War international diplomacy that led to this rift.
Recommended Citation
Batman, Caleb, "Spending the Peace Dividend: NATO and the Failures of American Diplomacy" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1230
