NATO and Eastern Europe: A Challenge for Russia?

... member-states, and is rejected outright by the majority of the elite. The dramatic crisis of confidence between Russia and the West that has peaked with the Ukraine crisis has led to both sides testing each other’s defence capabilities, seemingly ... ... carrying out numerous, and often large-scale, military exercises. What we are thus witnessing is a return to the paradigm of mutual deterrence, with no side seeming prepared to resume the work of the NATO–Russia Council. In spit of the above, we ...