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NATO Expansion Linda talks with Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC who studies U.S.-NATO-European Relations, about the ongoing debate over enlarging the NATO alliance. NATO ministers announced on Tuesday that a summit will be held July 8th and 9th to extend the first invitations to former Soviet-bloc countries, and the new countries could achieve membership by 1999. Sonnenfeldt says that Russia is not enthusiastic about the new alliances, but that the nation is not actively opposing the arrangements.

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Linda talks with Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC who studies U.S.-NATO-European Relations, about the ongoing debate over enlarging the NATO alliance. NATO ministers announced on Tuesday that a summit will be held July 8th and 9th to extend the first invitations to former Soviet-bloc countries, and the new countries could achieve membership by 1999. Sonnenfeldt says that Russia is not enthusiastic about the new alliances, but that the nation is not actively opposing the arrangements.