A Strategy for Stable Peace, coauthored by three highly experienced experts, presents the results of a two-year study on alternative futures for U.S.-EU-Russian relations and a “peaceful, undivided, democratic Europe.” It offers bold and pragmatic arguments for creating a security community circling the Northern Hemisphere from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

The authors assess the current political, economic, and security climates within Russia, the European Union, and the United States. Most usefully, they recommend concrete, practicable policies for gradually building close and enduring cooperation on the basis of shared interests and common values, in place of the wars and near-wars that have plagued Euroatlantic relations for centuries. As Russia’s leadership strives toward integration into Western institutions, the authors note, America and Western Europe have “a rare chance to solve the ‘Russia problem’ in a constructive and conclusive way.”