I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time. - Timothy Garton Ash
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
- Timothy Garton Ash
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of … - Timothy Garton Ash
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of …
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t… - Timothy Garton Ash
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t…
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the… - Timothy Garton Ash
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the…
Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life… - Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life…
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. - Timothy Garton Ash
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Europe's biggest problem is its success. - Timothy Garton Ash
Europe's biggest problem is its success.
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member … - Timothy Garton Ash
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member …
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit… - Timothy Garton Ash
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit…
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