Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Timothy Garton AshNuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
Timothy Garton AshThe Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.
Timothy Garton AshIf you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.
Timothy Garton Ash