M. E. Sarotte is the Kravis Professor of Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall.
“Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws
on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret
documents—including many that have never been published
before—which both fill in and complicate settled narratives on both
sides.”—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker
“Prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte . . . charts all the
private discussions within the western alliance and with Russia
over enlargement and reveals Russia as powerless to slow the
ratchet effect of the opening of Nato’s door.”—Patrick Wintour, The
Guardian
“Sarotte is the unofficial dean of ‘end of Cold War’ studies. . . .
With her latest book, she tackles head-on the
not-controversial-at-all questions about NATO’s eastward growth and
the effect it had on Russia’s relations with the west. I look
forward to the contretemps this book will inevitably
produce.”—Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post
“‘Not one inch to the east’ . . . [is] a history so often repeated
that it’s practically conventional wisdom. Mary Sarotte . . .
[describes] what actually happened [between the US and Russia], and
how both the reality and distortion really shape today’s
events.”—Max Fisher, New York Times, from “The Interpreter”
newsletter
“A riveting account of Nato enlargement and its contribution to the
present confrontation. Sarotte tells the story with great narrative
and analytical flair, admirable objectivity, and an attention to
detail that many of us who thought we knew the history have
forgotten or never knew.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times
“Masterful and exhaustively researched. . . . For this well-written
and pacy book, [Sarotte] has uncovered previously unpublished
details of former president Bill Clinton’s role in deciding
Europe’s fate.”—Con Coughlin, Sunday Telegraph
“Highly detailed, thoroughly researched, and briskly written.”—Fred
Kaplan, New York Review of Books
“There’s no one who has researched the relevant sources more
thoroughly than historian Mary E. Sarotte, who has just published
Not One Inch . . . successfully reconstructing the most significant
days [in NATO expansion].”—Stefan Kornelius, Süddeutsche
Zeitung
“Sarotte weaves together the most engaging and carefully documented
account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently
available.”—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs
“Not One Inch is the best history to date of how American and
Russian leaders went from the early post–Cold War world where
dreams seemed unnecessary to our current one, in which dreams seem
out of reach.”—Fritz Bartel, Journal of Contemporary History
Selected as a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021
“The paramount influence of domestic politics on foreign policy
[is] Sarotte’s forte, and she incisively portrays Clinton’s
hillbilly takeover of Washington and the Monica Lewinsky affair’s
impact on NATO and Russia policy. She excels at sketches of
European leaders, too, especially Helmut Kohl, nailing his
folksiness and sublime skill at self-promotion. . . . To see
political actors who were venal and mistake-prone yet effective is
what makes her history so compelling.”—Stephen Kotkin, Times
Literary Supplement
“Russia’s war against Ukraine is an aftershock of the earthquake of
1989–9 . . . [when] two questions dominated European security
discussions. . . . The first was about how to integrate Russia into
a new world order. The second was about how far, if at all, to
stretch the boundaries of NATO membership into eastern Europe and
the ex-Soviet states. These questions lie at the heart of M. E.
Sarotte’s remarkable book on geopolitics in the final decade of the
last century.”—Robert Service, Literary Review
“Sarotte’s historical narrative is backed up by extensive source
material. . . . The book excels in its extensive investigation of
high-tension moments in the debate over NATO enlargement. . . .
Indispensable for readers interested in history and international
relations.”—Maria Papageorgiou, International Affairs
“Multi-archival, multi-lingual, and multi-level research paired
with Sarotte’s gripping narration makes Not One Inch a new
centrepiece of debate for academics and policymakers alike. . . .
The historiography of the 1990s is indebted to the groundwork she
has laid.”—Bradley Reynolds, Cold War History
“Not One Inch is the best history to date of how American and
Russian leaders went from the early post-Cold War world where
dreams seemed unnecessary to our current one, in which dreams seem
out of reach.”—Fritz Bartel, Journal of Contemporary
History
“Sarotte traces the difficult course of Russia’s relations with
Europe and the United States during the decade which followed the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. . . . The story has been told
before, but never so fully or so well. In a remarkable historical
coup, Sarotte has persuaded the German foreign ministry to open its
archives to her, and the Americans to declassify thousands of
documents previously closed to researchers.”—Jonathan Sumption,
Spectator
"[Sarotte's] nuanced account, based on new evidence, shows that the
US never made a promise to Russia that Nato’s borders would move
‘not one inch’ eastwards. Sarotte doesn’t absolve the US from
blame, but this should be read by those who tend to heap most blame
for the Russian invasion on the west."—Irish Independent 'Best
Eight Politics Books of the Year'
“Sarotte’s work offers a nuanced, well-founded and comprehensive
interpretation of American-Russian relations and the European
security architecture after 1989.”—Lukas Baake, sehepunkte
2022 Arthur Ross Silver medal winner, sponsored by the Council
on Foreign Relations
Shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize
“A riveting account of fateful choices to expand NATO and their
consequences for relations with Russia today.”—Graham Allison,
author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape
Thucydides’s Trap?
“Sarotte deftly unpacks one of the most important strategic moves
of the post–Cold War Era: the decision to enlarge NATO. Her
detailed history of the 1990s is groundbreaking, and her assessment
of the impacts of NATO expansion on European security is balanced
and nuanced. A major accomplishment and a must-read.”—Charles A.
Kupchan, Georgetown University and the Council on Foreign
Relations
“Not One Inch will be considered the best-documented and
best-argued history of the NATO expansion during the crucial
1989–1999 period.”—Norman Naimark, author of Stalin and the Fate of
Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
“Sarotte explores how and why NATO expanded and relations with
Russia deteriorated in the post–Cold War world. It is an important
book, well documented and told.”—Joseph Nye Jr., author of Do
Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
“A marvelous and timely book. This is history that policymakers,
scholars, and pundits need to read right now.”—Anne-Marie
Slaughter, CEO, New America
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