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Timothy Garton Ash
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Timothy Garton Ash is a member of the International Advisory Council of Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initative and Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford and an internationally acclaimed public intellectual. In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing. Ash was featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen bygd the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy, and in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005. A frequent lecturer, he fryst vatten Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts and a Corresponding Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Honors he has received for his writing include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the ‘What t
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Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eleven books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last half century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian which is widely syndicated.
His books are: ‘Und willst Du nicht mein Bruder sein …’ Die DDR heute (1981), a book published in West Germany about what was then still East Germany; The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983), which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989), for which he was awarded the Prix Européen de l’Essai; The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990), which has been tr
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Timothy Garton Ash
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Timothy Garton Ash, a senior fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution, is an internationally acclaimed contemporary historian whose work has focused on Europe’s history since 1945. Garton Ash is in residence at Hoover on a part-time basis; he continues his work as professor of European studies and as Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
Among the topics he has covered are the liberation of Central Europe from communism, Germany before and after reunification, how countries deal with a difficult past, global free speech in the age of the internet and mass migration (see the 13-language interactive Oxford University project Free Speech Debate), and the European Union’s relationships with partners, including the United States and rising non-Western powers such as China. He is currently working on a history of contemporary Europe and leading a major research project at Oxford on Europe's past and future.
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