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Due to the ongoing negotiated aspect of the role of NATO, Sarotte's conceptualisation is that "not one inch" was in fact a multifaceted, fluctuating process of joint complicity throughout the 1990s rather than a singular promise between Baker and Gorbachev in 1990. Mary Sarotte's key contribution in I Not One Inch i is to redirect historiographical debates from the end of the Cold War to the post-Cold War period. I Not One Inch i builds on the growing academic reassessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement historiography by pushing the discussion from the first, into the second half of the 1990s. [Extracted from the article]

Although the US military tried to maintain segregation overseas, Guglielmo shows that the welcome that minority soldiers received from locals overseas, the friendships they developed with White soldiers, and their activism blurred racial lines. Thomas Guglielmo aims to correct the myth, widespread in popular culture, that unity characterized US military forces in World War II. This did not stop civil rights leaders from lobbying to end segregation in the military, and Guglielmo shows that the resistance of Black soldiers helped their efforts. [Extracted from the article]