Foreword : a Europe "whole and free" will not be possible without Russia / Vlamdamir V. Kara-Murza -- Introduction / Oxana Schmies -- Looking for historical unlocking : issues of strategic stability -- Nuclear deterrence : a guarantee or a threat to strategic stability? / Alexey Arbatov -- 50 years ago : Kennedy, Brandt, Nixon — a model for 21st century statecraft? / John Kornblum -- A "great prize," but not the main prize : British internal deliberations on not-losing Russia, 1993-1995 / Liviu Horovitz -- The Clinton administration and reshaping Europe / Steven Pifer -- Russia and NATO : security guarantees as a strategic challenge for Central and Eastern Europe -- Central European security and Russia / Marcin Zaborowski -- The Ukraine conflict : lessons for NATO, Kyiv and their future relations / Andreas Heinemann-Grüder -- Damage control : the breach of the Budapest memorandum and the nuclear non-proliferation regime / Mariana Budjeryn & Andreas Umland -- Lost and real chances in Western-Ukrainian Russian relations : an interview / Pavlo Klimkin -- Russia as a security challenge of tomorrow : some clues -- Strategic decentering : Moscow's ideological rhetoric and it's strategic unconscious, 2012-2020 / Gleb Pavlovsky -- Foundations of current and future security relations between Russia and NATO member states : narratives, capabilities, perceptions and misperceptions / Dmitry Stefanovich & Mikhail Mironyuk -- Cooperation vs. confrontation : German-Russian security relations between geopolitical poles / Roderich Kiesewetter -- On the misperception of Russia's foreign and security policies / Łukasz Adamski -- Russian military policy and Moscow's approaches towards the West / Reiner Schwalb / Concluding remarks / Oxana Schmies.