Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She previously served as NATO Deputy Secretary General from 2016 to 2019 and as a senior U.S. State Department arms-control official, including as chief U.S. negotiator for New START; her 2026 book is Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations after the Cold War.

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.

Hoover InstitutionMay 8, 202620 min read