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About Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. The recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award and Order of Merits from the Federal Republic of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, Timothy Garton Ash frequently writes for leading newspapers and magazines and has a weekly column in The Guardian. Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books, the latest of which is Free World: Why a Crisis of the West reveals the Opportunity of our Time (Random House, 2004). Timothy Garton Ash holds a degree in modern history from Exeter College, Oxford, and another at a graduate level from St. Anthony's College, Oxford. Having spent several years researching the German resistance to Hitler at the Freie Universitat in West Berlin and the Humboldt University in East Berlin, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was able to travel widely behind the iron curtain.

Articles by Timothy Garton Ash

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Monday 9th November

What Lisbon means for Europe

Timothy Garton Ash, Simon Zadek, Dennis Nottebaum, Victoria Curzon Price, and Jerome di Costanzo, 9 November 2009

openDemocracy asked five of our authors for their takes on the passage of the Lisbon Treaty. Here are their comments

Thursday 22nd December

High hopes, low expectations

Timothy Garton Ash, 22 December 2005

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)

Thursday 6th February

The axis of ambivalence

Timothy Garton Ash, 6 February 2003

President Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first warof the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputation and following. Our aim, to help create a truly global debate all can identify with.

Wednesday 12th September

A day to define a century

Timothy Garton Ash, 12 September 2001

The attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 raise profound questions of American power, human rights, and international law. How Washington responds will define the world's next decade and beyond, says Timothy Garton Ash.