Three decades ago, the United States and its European allies had high hopes for a new relationship with a Russia that seemed on the path toward democracy. Today, the West faces an authoritarian Russia that has committed genocide in Ukraine and is bent on undermining Western democracies.

In this interview HCSS senior strategic analyst Paul van Hooft raises important questions with James Goldgeier; could things have been different, as many have argued, had the United States and its European allies followed a different approach to Russia and to NATO enlargement in the 1990s and 2000s? How will the United States and its NATO allies deter and defend against the threat Russia poses – and an ever-closer Sino-Russian relations – going forward?

James is a a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as Dean from 2011-17.

James Goldgeier visits HCSS: https://hcss.nl/news/transatlantic-dialogues-with-james-goldgeier-on-the-united-states-nato-and-russia-why-did-things-go-wrong-and-where-do-we-go-from-here/
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