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Richard N. Haass: “Opponents of a larger NATO predict that NATO's easterly expansion will provoke a hostile Russian reaction.”

On the recordDecember 31, 1996
Opponents of a larger NATO predict that NATO's easterly expansion will provoke a hostile Russian reaction.
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Richard N. Haass

Editor's note · Context

Haass acknowledged concerns that NATO expansion might provoke Russia.

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