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Timothy Garton Ash

Historian of the collapse of communism, Timothy Garton Ash is a researcher at the St Anthony’s College of Oxford and at the Hoover Institution of the Stanford University. Head of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and author of History of the Present. Signatory of the call of the 115 atlantists against Vladimir Putin.

19 articles

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“Let’s make sure we do better with Iran than we did with Iraq”

by Timothy Garton Ash

27 January 2006

The West has a new challenge. After Iraq, Iran now. While Teheran removes the seals of the nuclear facilities and gets ready to resume its uranium enrichment programme that could allow it to produce atomic weapons in some years, Europe and the United States must work on a common answer (...)

“How the dreaded superstate became a Commonwealth"

by Timothy Garton Ash

11 November 2005

This week, the European Union did something remarkable. It chose to become an all-European Commonwealth, not the part-European superstate of Tory nightmares. Actually, the main objective of the opening –bitterly contested– of negotiations with Turkey is not to ensure that Turkey becomes a (...)

“We Must Not Let Our Greatness Flicker”

by Aleksander Smolar, Michael Mertes, Timothy Garton Ash , Dominique Moïsi

24 June 2005

For historians, May 29th and June 1st, 2005, dates of the French and Dutch “no”, will be crucial and symbolic moments to Europe. They mark the symbolic end of an era that began after the Second World War, a period characterized by reverence to the European Union, associated with peace, (...)