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| Title: | Countering disinformation on German reunification and NATO enlargement – Friends of Europe |
| URL: | https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/countering-disinformation-on-german-reunification-and-nato-enlargement/ |
| Publisher: | Friends of Europe |
| Date published: | November 9, 2019 |
| Description: | NATO enlargement has been at the heart of several heated security debates. Pundits and scholars alike have conflated several ‘promises’ not to extend NATO eastward. Much of their arguments draw from the Baker-Gorbachev and Kohl-Gorbachev discussions of the early nineties. There is only one little problem with this wonderful saga of so-called ‘promises’ – it’s just that, a saga, not a fact. Here’s what actually happened: there were two separate negotiations. One for German reunification in 1990 and a second, separate negotiation for the post-1991 opening of NATO. Conflating the two negotiations is an analytical mistake that leads to spurious conclusions. |
