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Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies Emeritus at Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, was recently awarded the Lionel Gelber Prize. (May 2024)

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Big Germany, What Now?

Big Germany, What Now?

The post-Wall era is over and everyone, including the Germans, is asking which way Germany—the most powerful country in the European Union—will go.

Germany, A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000

by Helmut Walser Smith

Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration

edited by Emmanuel Comte and Fernando Guirao

Wie Wir Wurden, Was Wir Sind: Eine Kurze Geschichte der Deutschen [How We Became What We Are: A Short History of the Germans]

by Heinrich August Winkler

Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500–2000

by David Blackbourn

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022

by Frank Trentmann

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May 23, 2024 issue

Ukraine in Our Future

Ukraine in Our Future

Ukraine faces extraordinary challenges, but it also presents a challenge for Europe—and a great opportunity.

Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History

by Serhii Plokhy

Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Hintergründe, Ereignisse, Folgen [The War Against Ukraine: Background, Events, Consequences]

by Gwendolyn Sasse

The Zelensky Effect

by Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale

The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present

by Serhii Plokhy

February 23, 2023 issue

Is Europe Disintegrating?

Is Europe Disintegrating?

Did the post-wall era end, sometime between the high point of 2005 and the low of today?

Europe Since 1989: A History

by Philipp Ther, translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Europe Entrapped

by Claus Offe

The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs

by Hans-Werner Sinn

Der Euro: Von der Friedensidee zum Zankapfel

by Hans-Werner Sinn

La fin du rêve européen

by François Heisbourg

What Is Populism?

by Jan-Werner Müller

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January 19, 2017 issue

Censored!

Censored!

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

by Robert Darnton

October 23, 2014 issue

‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’

‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’

The Roadmap

by Suragamika

Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets

edited and translated from the Burmese by Ko Ko Thett and James Byrne

June 6, 2013 issue

Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together

Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together

Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation

by Robert S. Leiken

Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities

by the Open Society Institute

The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration

by Jonathan Laurence

The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Immigrant Nations

by Paul Scheffer, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters

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November 22, 2012 issue

Germans, More or Less

Germans, More or Less

Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen (Germany Abolishes Itself: How We Are Putting Our Country at Risk)

by Thilo Sarrazin

February 24, 2011 issue

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