Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash       ( historian)
Born	12 July 1955)  London,  UK
Nationality	British
Alma mater	•  St Edmund's School •  Sherborne School •  Exeter College (Oxford) •  St Antony's College (Oxford) •  Free University of Berlin •  Humboldt University
Parents	•  John Garton Ash •  Lorna Judith Freke
Children	•  2 •  including •  Alec
Member of	"The New Humanitarians", Center for European Policy Analysis, Centre for European Reform, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK, European Council on Foreign Relations, German Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, Hoover Institution/Fellows, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Königswinter/Speakers, Prague Security Studies Institute
UK historian promoted by the deep state, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.  Professor of European Studies In office 2004 - Present Employer Oxford University/St Antony's College Fellow since 1989. UK historian promoted by the deep state

Timothy J. Garton Ash is a historian and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution specializing in European history since 1945. Ash wrote a working paper on Domestic Developments In Eastern Europe:Policy Implications For The West for the 1989 Bilderberg.

George Szamuely wrote of him:

“It is always fascinating to observe the manufacture of history. Our rulers want a certain story told. For this they hire Court historians, whom they then reward handsomely. They are showered with grants, prizes, trips abroad, fellowships, prestigious appointments. The Court historians get to mingle with men of power and assure themselves that they too are men of power.

There is today no better exemplar of the Court historian than Timothy Garton Ash, Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Though he does little more than summarize the conventional wisdom on any subject, every one of his writings carries an aura of importance. He repeatedly refers to past essays and past books, which are themselves collections of past essays. His mind rarely wanders from the reservation. He makes sure never to ask a question that might shake our assumptions about the good intentions of our masters.

No doubt future generations will read Garton Ash's nonsense and come to the appropriate conclusions about "naïve" Americans, policies "paved with good intentions" and "international protectorates" in the Balkans that nobody had ever sought.

That is the whole purpose of "official history." It is written to persuade us that all is for the best in this the best of all liberal worlds, that we, one and all, are marching to the liberal world order.”
George Szamuely (January 2000) 

Education

Garton Ash was born to John and Lorna Garton Ash. His father was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was an officer in the British Army during the Second World War.

Garton Ash was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Sherborne School, Dorset and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern History.

For postgraduate study he went to St Antony's College, Oxford, and then, in the still divided Berlin, to the Free University in West Berlin on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship in 1978 and to the Humboldt University in East Berlin in 1980 as the first GDR–UK exchange student. Garton Ash was suspect figure to the East German counterintelligence, who regarded him as a potential British intelligence operative.

Career

In the 1980s Garton Ash was Foreign Editor of The Spectator, editorial writer on Germany and Central Europe for The Times and a columnist for The Independent. He was among the first Western journalists to report from the Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdańsk, Poland in August 1980 that led to the Gdańsk Agreement, and met with Lech Wałęsa there. He interviewed several Polish opposition leaders. Eventually expelled from the country, he also visited the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Hungarian People's Republic, the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina at key moments of their late history.

In 1986/1987, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

In his much-quoted essay "Does Central Europe Exist?" of 1986, he welcomed the resurgence of the former German notion of Central Europe as an anti-Soviet regional identity among the dissidents in Prague and Budapest. He was present at Viktor Orbán's speech on 16 June 1989 in the Heroes' Square in Budapest, and at the Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

In March 1990, he was summoned by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as an authority on Germany and one of "her favourite British historians" alongside Norman Stone and Hugh Trevor-Roper to answer her concerns about German reunification during a confidential seminar at Chequers that was later leaked out to the press.

He became a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1989, a Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution in 2000, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford in 2004. He directed the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2006,

He subsequently founded the Dahrendorf Programme at the European Studies Centre, and directed it from 2010 to 2024.

He has written a column on European and international affairs in The Guardian since 2004 and is a long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books. His column was also translated in the Turkish daily Radikal and in the Spanish daily El País, as well as other newspapers. He is a member of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism steering committee.

Opinions

Garton Ash describes himself as a liberal internationalist. He is a supporter of what he calls the free world and liberal democracy, represented in his view by the European Union, and the United States as a superpower.

Garton Ash opposed Scottish independence. He supported the 2011 war against Libya, arguing that the intervention in Libya was justified under the "responsibility to protect" (R2P) doctrine. About the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian war, he opined that "Europe is at war". "Societies that are still enjoying a comfortable peacetime lifestyle, and where many apparently believe this war can soon be over with a negotiated compromise peace deal, must be shaken awake".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1989	12 May 1989	14 May 1989	Spain Galicia La Toja Island	37th Bilderberg meeting, 110 guests
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/2019	30 May 2019	2 June 2019	Switzerland Montreux	The 67th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Switzerland, the last before the COVID-19 operation that so many Bilderbergers were involved in
Brussels Forum/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. Over40% of the visitors have pages here.
Brussels Forum/2013	2013	2013	Belgium Brussels	2013 get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. About 1/3 of the visitors have pages.
GLOBSEC/Forum/2019	6 June 2019	8 June 2019	Slovakia Bratislava	Yearly spooky conference in Slovakia. Only panel speakers are known.
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference, over half of the 324 guests have a page
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." Over 40% of the guests have pages.
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	About 60% of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists, about 50% of whom have a page. The policies are determined by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006	25 January 2006	29 January 2006	Switzerland WEF	Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012	25 January 2012	29 January 2012	Switzerland WEF	2112 guests in Davos
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2024	13 September 2024	14 September 2024	Ukraine Kiev	Yearly junket conference in Ukraine funded by sugar daddy Victor Pinchuk.

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