Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
A revisionist account arguing NATO expansion, not Russian aggression, started the new Cold War.
Scott Horton traces American policy toward Russia from the end of the Soviet Union through NATO enlargement, missile defence, Ukraine in 2014 and the war that followed, arguing that Washington repeatedly chose confrontation. It is contested throughout and openly so, and the sourcing is extensive.
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