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October 3, 2024
RAND researchers helped lay the groundwork for NATO expansion and adaptation
F. Stephen Larrabee
Randland is an expert on European affairs and transatlantic security, and is one of several Rand analysts recognized for work that laid the foundation for the U.S. approach to NATO expansion into Eastern Europe in the 1990s. It is with deep regret that we mourn the death of Mr. F. Stephen Larrabee. . He was 79 years old.
“Stephen Larrabee’s pioneering work helped prepare the foundation for NATO as the world knows it today,” said Jason Matheny, president and chief executive officer of Rand, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based research institute. said. “During his long career at Landland, he has emerged as an astute analyst of European politics and security issues.”
Mr. Larrabee and his colleagues at Rand University, Ronald D. Asmus and Richard L. Kugler, outlined the arguments for expansion in Foreign Affairs in 1993. This essay came to be considered highly influential. “Nationalism and ethnic conflict have already caused two world wars in Europe,” they write. “Whether Europe collapses for the third time this century will depend on whether Western countries can muster the political will and strategic vision to address potential sources of instability and conflict before it is too late. Masu.”
This article and other analyzes published by Larrabee and his colleagues helped prepare the country for NATO expansion. In 1994, NATO leaders decided to admit members of the former Eastern Bloc, and Rand’s research supports and supports NATO’s 1997 decision to invite Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary into the alliance. I built it. This was the first in a series of expansions.
After joining the RAND Corporation in 1990, Mr. Larrabee remained affiliated with the Institute for the rest of his life. Most recently, he was a senior political scientist based in Randland’s Washington, DC office, often focusing on U.S. policy toward Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Eastern Mediterranean. He was also a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Mr. Larrabee previously served as deputy director and director of the East-West Security Institute in New York from 1983 to 1989. He also served on the White House’s National Security Council staff as an expert on Soviet Union and Eastern European issues. He studies East-West political and military relations and was previously an analyst and deputy director of Soviet studies at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in 1966, a master’s degree in international relations in 1969, and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1978. Larrabee also attended the University of Munich from 1970 to 1971.
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