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Timothy Garton Ash

Essays

  1. European leaders including Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer, standing in a crowd. Macron appears to be being introduced to somebody out of frame, and press photographers are visible in the background.

    The fight for Europe's future
    Financial Times,

  2. Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin, looking at one another, whilst seated opposite at a dining table.

    Angela Merkel - Eastern leader of the West
    The Times Literary Supplement,

  3. A montage of several photographs of missiles being launched from Belgorod, Russia, as seen from northeast Kharkiv

    Homage to Kharkiv
    The New Your Review,

  4. St. Stephen's Cathedral and blue sky reflected in the glass of a modern building in Stephansplatz, Vienna

    Where is Central Europe now?
    The Times Literary Supplement,

  5. People waving German flags at night in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, celebrating the unification of Germany in 1990

    Big Germany, What Now?
    The New York Review,

  6. Ukraine’s chief commander, Valeriy Zaluzhny in uniform; other members of the armed forces in the background.

    Ukraine’s fate, Europe’s choice
    Prospect Magazine,

  7. On a sunny day in Brussels, demonstrators hold Ukranian flags and cardboard placards, with slogans such as 'Putin keep hands off Ukraine!', 'Ukraine love not war', 'Stop war, stop Putin', and 'Protect Ukranian Sky'. Around 30 people are visible.

    ‘Europe Whole and Free’
    The New York Review,

  8. Municipal service workers dismantle a monument to a Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, Dnipro, eastern Ukraine. The head and shoulders of the statue are being hoisted up in a harness and members of the public and the media are watching from a safe distance in the background.

    Putin, Pushkin, and the decline of the Russian empire
    European Council on Foreign Relations,

  9. An illustration of three blue flags. The first is the standard EU flag with yellow stars arranged in a circle. Unseen figures are removing them, cutting them apart with scissors and rearranging them – by the third flag they have formed a crown.

    How the War in Ukraine Is Transforming Europe
    Foreign Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations),

  10. An illustration of a set of dominos, each with an EU member flag on one side. A Russian 'Z' tank is in the process of toppling over the first domino, that of Ukraine which is propped up by a variety of warheads and the arm of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Various other European leaders are running frantically towards the first domino, carrying their own warheads. In the background, flagpoles and US, EU and Nato flags are visible, and a charicature of the Statue of Liberty is watching.

    The Message from Kyiv
    The Spectator,

  11. A volunteer welding antitank traps in anticipation of a Russian attack, Odesa, Ukraine, March 2022

    Ukraine in Our Future
    The New York Review,

  12. An illustration of the Statue of Liberty, viewed from behind, with collapsing buildings and rising smoke in the background.

    The Future of Liberalism
    Prospect Magazine,

  13. A black and white photo of students campaigning for free speech in front of a University of California building, Berkeley in 1964.

    Free speech is about listening as well as talking
    Financial Times,

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    Time for a New Liberation?
    New York Review of Books,

  15. A generic illustration of coloured speech bubbles and punctuation - question mark, exclamation point etc.

    The west needs its own perestroika moment
    Financial Times,

  16. Photo or illustration - no description

    Life after liberation
    Foreign Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations),

  17. Photo or illustration - no description

    Brexit: an island on the edge
    Prospect Magazine,

  18. The head being lifted onto the world's tallest statue of Jesus in Świebodzin, western Poland.

    Poland's Dangerous Populism
    New York Review of Books,

  19. Photo or illustration - no description

    It’s the Kultur, Stupid
    New York Review of Books,

  20. Angela Merkel and Viktor Orban leaning across and talking to one another, standing at two podiums with Germany and Hungary flags visible in the background.

    Is Europe Disintegrating?
    New York Review of Books,

  21. Photo or illustration - no description

    Defying the Assassin's Veto
    New York Review of Books,

  22. Photo or illustration - no description

    Censored!
    New York Review of Books,

  23. A man, facing away from the camera, standing in a muddy field examining debris from the Malaysia Airlines crash in Grabovo, Ukraine

    Putin’s Deadly Doctrine
    New York Times,

  24. From the Lighthouse: The World and the NYR After Fifty Years
    New York Review of Books,

  25. The New German Question
    New York Review of Books,

  26. Burma's Uncrowned Queen
    New York Review of Books,

  27. The King and I
    New York Review of Books,

  28. India: Watch What You Say
    New York Review of Books,

  29. To stay in Europe, vote Conservative
    Financial Times,

  30. Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together
    New York Review of Books,

  31. The Crisis of Europe
    Foreign Affairs,

  32. Germans, More or Less
    New York Review of Books,

  33. Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
    New York Review of Books,

  34. 1989!
    New York Review of Books,

  35. The Road from Danzig
    New York Review of Books,

  36. The Stasi on Our Minds
    New York Review of Books,

  37. Islam in Europe
    New York Review of Books,

  38. Soldiers of the Hidden Imam
    New York Review of Books,

  39. The Orange Revolution
    New York Review of Books,

  40. A Genius for Friendship
    New York Review of Books,

  41. Orwell’s List
    New York Reviews of Books,

  42. Anti-Europeanism in America
    New York Reviews of Books,

  43. On the Frontier
    New York Reviews of Books,

  44. Is There a Good Terrorist?
    New York Reviews of Books,

  45. Odd Man Out
    New York Reviews of Books,

  46. The European Orchestra
    New York Reviews of Books,

  47. Is Britain European?
    Prospect,

  48. Is Britain European? (full version, paywall)
    International Affairs,

  49. The Last Revolution [Serbia]
    New York Reviews of Books,

  50. Kosovo: Was It Worth It?
    New York Reviews of Books,

  51. Beauty and the Beast in Burma
    New York Reviews of Books,

  52. Anarchy & Madness [Serbia and Kosovo]
    New York Reviews of Books,

  53. Hail Ruthenia!
    New York Reviews of Books,

  54. The Puzzle of Central Europe
    New York Reviews of Books,

  55. Cry, the Dismembered Country
    New York Reviews of Books,

  56. Goodbye to Bonn
    New York Reviews of Books,

  57. Orwell in 1998
    New York Reviews of Books,

  58. Can Europeans really find no way of living together in democracies other than living apart?
    London Review of Books,

  59. The black and the red
    Prospect,

  60. Europe: Iceberg Ahead
    New York Reviews of Books,

  61. Writing for Rupert
    Prospect,

  62. Comparative Horrors
    London Review of Books,

  63. Europe's Endangered Liberal Order
    Foreign Affairs, March/April 1998 issue

  64. The Truth About Dictatorship
    New York Reviews of Books,

  65. The Curse and Blessing of South Africa
    New York Reviews of Books,

  66. True Confessions
    New York Reviews of Books,

  67. Bad memories
    Prospect,

  68. The Imperfect Spy (Review essay on Markus Wolf)
    New York Reviews of Books,

  69. In the Serbian Soup
    New York Reviews of Books,

  70. Hungary’s Revolution: Forty Years On
    New York Reviews of Books,

  71. Back into Europe
    Prospect,

  72. ‘Neo-Pagan’ Poland
    New York Reviews of Books,

  73. Bosnia in Our Future
    New York Reviews of Books,

  74. Central Europe: The Present Past
    New York Reviews of Books,

  75. Catching the wrong bus? Europe's future and the great gamble of monetary union
    The Times Literary Supplement,

  76. Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians
    New York Reviews of Books,

  77. Germany's Choice
    Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994 issue

  78. Journey to the Post-Communist East
    New York Reviews of Books,

  79. The Visit
    Granta,

  80. Poland After Solidarity
    New York Reviews of Books,

  81. East Germany: The Solution
    New York Reviews of Books,

  82. Revolution in Hungary and Poland
    New York Reviews of Books,

  83. From World War to Cold War
    New York Reviews of Books,

  84. In the Churchill Museum
    New York Reviews of Books,

  85. Under Western Eyes: Poland, 1980–1982
    The Washington Quarterly, Volume 7, 1984 - Issue 2