Word: expansionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
No one knows the answer to that. The lowest estimate comes from the Administration, which figures that the cost of the first three new members will be about $35 billion over 13 years, with the U.S. share amounting to $200 million a year. Of course, if other new members are...
The main threats to the security of nations in Central and Eastern Europe are economic: the pain and stress of transforming their economies and politics after communism. And yet the first major initiative from the West is membership in a military alliance. What they really need is membership in the...
If the first stage of expansion is disruptive, it can only get worse in the future. "This venture," says one of its American designers, "will succeed or fail over whether the process can be kept open for all deserving countries, including the Baltics." Yes, he says, the admission of Estonia...
Washington insists it is undeterred. "The Russians say they are not prepared to live with any of the former Soviet republics inside NATO," notes an Administration official. "Russia will have to get over that." If Russia does not get over it, though, the result could be precisely the European instability...
At that point National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Secretary of State Warren Christopher also favored expansion. But the Pentagon wanted no part of a larger, more costly alliance, and Strobe Talbott, Christopher's top Russia expert and now Deputy Secretary of State, feared that a rush to admit new...