CGSR | The Future of European Security by James Goldgeier

Abstract: At the end of the Cold War, the United States decided that NATO should continue to maintain the primary role for European security, and in 1999, NATO took in new members from the East and went to war against Serbia. While the United States sought a new relationship with Russia during this period, Moscow's grievances grew. It was not just NATO enlargement and the Kosovo war that angered the Russian government, but the unilateral U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, support for democratic reformers in the former Soviet republics, and the Iraq War, among other issues. In December 2021, those long-held grievances formed the basis for Moscow's public demands of the U.S. and NATO, which responded by offering to negotiate on a range of core European security issues. Can the West and Russia find a new European security framework that would satisfy all parties, or is the current clash between the West and Russia likely to continue for the foreseeable future?

Bio: James Goldgeier is 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. Previously, he was a professor at George Washington University, where from 2001-05, he directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Before moving to Washington, D.C., he taught at Cornell University. He has served as a director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, and he has held appointments or fellowships at the Library of Congress, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund, and the Hoover Institution. He is a past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, and he is a senior adviser to the Bridging the Gap initiative, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Raymond Frankel Foundation. He has authored or co-authored four books.

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