“Not one inch eastward”

Baker James (U.S. Secretary of States)

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It began not with gunfire, but a whisper—soft, almost drowned by the silence of a snow-covered Kremlin morning in February 1990.

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker leaned across a polished table, met the weary eyes of Mikhail Gorbachev, and promised: “Not one inch eastward.” In that fragile breath, amid the ruins of a crumbling Soviet empire, trust flickered. And with it, the hope for a new kind of world—a world where peace could be brokered not by power, but by promise.

But promises, as history teaches us, are delicate things.

In Global Hegemony: A Strategic Illusion, Dr. Arnouk takes you on a riveting journey through the ghost corridors of global diplomacy, where silent pledges become strategic gambits and forgotten memos bear the weight of today’s wars. This is not just a history book—it is a revelation.

A Story of Trust, and How It Was Lost

Dr. Arnouk paints history not as black-and-white policy, but as a vibrant tapestry of personal interactions, shifting ideologies, and quiet betrayals. I invite you into rooms where Gorbachev dared to dream of a “Common European Home”—only to find it surrounded by fences instead of bridges.

What happened after that morning in Moscow? NATO expanded, treaties frayed, and strategic illusions replaced the honesty of restraint. Chapter by chapter, I unravel how one broken assurance echoed across three decades, from Poland’s induction into NATO to the thunder of missiles near Ukraine’s borders.

A High-Stakes Chessboard

Through declassified documents, diplomatic cables, and a narrative voice that reads like a political thriller, I reveal a world where treaties like INF and START were born of hope—and later buried in silence.

In this book, you’ll walk the razor’s edge between diplomacy and deception. You’ll meet the men who believed in arms control, and those who quietly discarded it. And you’ll understand why global security today feels more fragile than ever—because it is.

A Mirror to the Present

As conflicts reignite and headlines roar about new cold wars and nuclear escalations, Global Hegemony: A Strategic Illusion is more than a history—it’s a warning. One that urges us to look at the choices we made and the truths we were told, and ask ourselves: What is the cost of dominance dressed as security?

Is hegemony a strategy, or is it a myth we keep selling ourselves?

Why This Book Matters Now

With the world once again teetering on the edge of geopolitical rupture, this book is a must-read for scholars, diplomats, strategists—and every citizen who dares to ask, “How did we get here?”

This is your invitation to step behind the veil of power and witness how the illusion was built.

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