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Compare realist and liberal explanations of NATO expansion since 1999.

Realist explanations (Mearsheimer, Walt, Schweller) frame NATO expansion as great-power behavior: the US extending its security perimeter while Russia was weak, generating predictable Russian backlash. Mearsheimer's 2014 'Why Ukraine Is the West's Fault' makes the clearest version of this case, arguing the 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, and 2023 enlargement rounds incrementally encircled Russia and motivated revanchism.1

Liberal explanations (Ikenberry, Mandelbaum, Asmus) frame the same events as the eastward extension of a rules-based liberal order. They emphasize: (a) new members were sovereign democracies choosing alignment, not 'expansion' by the alliance; (b) NATO's open-door policy (Article 10) is normatively constrained, not unlimited; (c) the post-1991 Russian leadership accepted enlargement until 2007 (Munich speech), when domestic politics shifted.2

Empirically, both schools struggle with cases: realists struggle to explain why no new members got Article 5 troop deployments until 2014, suggesting the 'encirclement' was less than realist accounts imply. Liberals struggle to explain why expansion continued after Russia's clear 2008 (Georgia) and 2014 (Crimea) signals — which a strict liberal-prudential framework would have paused.3

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Mearsheimer — 'Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault'

Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2014

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Ikenberry — Liberal Leviathan

Princeton University Press, 2011

3

NATO Enlargement Studies and Open Door Policy

NATO Public Diplomacy Division

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