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Articles in this collection include:

Evaluating NATO enlargement: scholarly debates, policy implications, and roads not taken
By James Goldgeier and Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

Patterns of continuity in NATO’s long history
By Timothy Andrews Sayle

NATO enlargement and US foreign policy: the origins, durability, and impact of an idea
By Joshua R. Shifrinson

NATO enlargement and US grand strategy: a net assessment
By Rajan Menon and William Ruger

NATO enlargement: evaluating its consequences in Russia
By Kimberly Marten

The tragedy of US–Russian relations: NATO centrality and the revisionists’ spiral
By Andrey A. Sushentsov and William C. Wohlforth

Thank goodness for NATO enlargement
By Alexander Lanoszka

Good for democracy? Evidence from the 2004 NATO expansion
By Paul Poast and Alexandra Chinchilla

NATO as a political alliance: continuities and legacies in the enlargement debates of the 1990s
By Susan Colbourn

Twenty years after: assessing the consequences of enlargement for the NATO military alliance
By Sara Bjerg Moller

Land rush: American grand strategy, NATO enlargement, and European fragmentation
By Paul van Hooft

NATO enlargement and the failure of the cooperative security mindset
By Stéfanie von Hlatky and Michel Fortmann