Rose Gottemoeller
Rose Gottemoeller is a scholar and expert on arms control and international security, and a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. She previously served as NATO deputy secretary general and as U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. She narrates a Hoover Institution video on the history and potential renewal of U.S.-Russia cooperation.
Renewed US-Russia Cooperation Depends on Verifiable Mutual Gains
Rose Gottemoeller argues that the International Space Station shows how practical cooperation between the United States and Russia can persist despite deep political conflict. In her account, the partnership endured because both sides gained from it and working-level teams built trust through years of joint operations. She says any broader renewal should wait until Russia ends the war and joins a fair peace process, and then proceed through focused, reciprocal projects whose results can be verified.
Clinton’s Russia Policy Began With Cooperation, Not NATO Encirclement
Rose Gottemoeller, a former senior U.S. arms control official and NATO deputy secretary general, uses her book Security Through Cooperation to challenge the Kremlin’s account of post-Cold War U.S. policy toward Russia. In her telling, the Clinton administration’s first instinct was not encirclement through NATO enlargement but an effort to build a durable security, economic and political relationship with Moscow, rooted in nuclear risk reduction, space cooperation and practical diplomacy. That argument leads to a more conditional conclusion about the present: cooperation served U.S. security before, she says, but cannot be restored in full while Vladimir Putin remains in the Kremlin.