Ronald Asmus: 2 books
Opening NATO's Door
How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment...
A Little War That Shook the World
Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of...