Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist. 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. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he also contributes to the New York Times and Washington Post.
His books include: The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983), The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989), We the People: The Revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990), In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993), and History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s (2000). His latest book is Facts are Subversive (2009). For more information, visit Timothy Garton Ash's personal website.
We have spent the years since the attacks on US soil focusing on the terrorist threat and wars in Afganistan and Iraq. But we have been blind to the real global change : the slow but unstoppable rise of China, writes Timothy Garton Ash. 
The European debt crisis is an open goal for Chinese investment overseas. This is why we need to understand what kind of power China is becoming, argues British historian Timothy Garton Ash. 
On the 150th anniversary of Italian unity, British historian and columnist Timothy Garton Ash looks at the "bel paese" - its fractiousness a mirror of the European Union - and is less than impressed. 
The European Union offers a high level of security, prosperity, freedom and social welfare for most of its citizens, but on the world stage is something of an irrelevance. If it is to escape its status as a “Greater Switzerland”, then it is crucial that the Lisbon Treaty is approved, argues Timothy Garton Ash.