This map shows NATO’s expansion eastward in Europe. Many countries in western Europe ... the end of the Cold War, more than a dozen countries from the former Eastern bloc have joined.

as well as renewed fears of a unified anti-western bloc that could potentially precipitate a new Cold War. A closer examination of global geopolitics and economics, however, suggests that instead ...

it has become the front line of a post-Cold War tug-of-war between Russia and the West. By insisting on NATO’s withdrawing its forces and weapons from former Soviet bloc countries, Putin would ...