Berger in Sputnik News: Putin at Munich Conference
Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, believes proposed anti-ballistic missile systems in Eastern Europe have become a political point of contention between the United States and Russia.
Berger was quoted in a February 12, 2016 article on Sputnik News, entitled “Munich Conference May Echo Russia’s 2007 Dissatisfaction With World Order.”
One of Berger’s quotes from the text of the article:
“The balance of terror between the great powers remains in place, and on the whole the case can be made that anti-ballistic missile systems should be stabilizing rather than destabilizing. Unfortunately, the proposed systems in Eastern Europe have for political — not strategic — reasons — become a point of contention between the US and Russia, which is most unfortunate,”
You can read the entire article here.
Thomas Berger joined the Department of International Relations in 2001. Previously, he taught for seven years at the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science in Baltimore. He is the author of War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II, Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan and is co-editor of Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State. You can read more about him here.