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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]

Gerstle likes another dissident from neoliberlism, Bernie Sanders, a lot more than he does Buchanan. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era: Gerstle, Gary. Gerstle simply despises Patrick Buchanan: for example, he notes that Buchanan worried that NAFTA meant "tough hearty [white] men" (151) would lose their jobs. [Extracted from the article]

However, later in the introduction and book, Ellickson writes instead that the effects of local land use regulations are "distortions that prevent efficiency to a market economy" (pp. 12-14, 114). However, recent research from the Urban Institute (Stacy et al., [4]) shows that loosening local land use restrictions is associated with increased housing supply but not lower-cost housing. Simplifying concerns to CBA and economic efficiency risks putting not just local land use regulations but I all i regulations within the monolithic neoclassical-economic category of deadweight loss (p. 201). [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]

Professionals may maintain these racist networks because they are a rational profit-maximization strategy: Real estate professionals may want to build wealthier White networks because they can generate higher commissions and profits. The author wields data from 102 interviews and 21 participant observations to support her argument that housing segregation is partially produced by real estate professionals, not only by the racist wealth gap and individual preferences. The book's findings rest on 1 year spent observing and interviewing real estate professionals in Houston (TX) with the goal of explaining the causes of residential segregation. [Extracted from the article]

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 allowed many of the ethnically distinctive parts of old Russia to become independent states, which, together with several former Warsaw Pact Powers, joined both NATO and the European Union [EU]. The major thesis in Jussi M. Hanhimäki's new book is that "the nations, institutions, people, and economies on the two sides of the Atlantic have become ever more connected in the decades following the end of the Cold War", and he ably demonstrates the strength of this relationship (p. 9). Hanhimäki sees this migration to NATO and the EU as evidence of the strength of the principles of transatlantic community. [Extracted from the article]