Monday 7th September - 05:20 PM BST
Opening Interview: Democracy vs Liberalism?
Can Liberal Democracy Survive the 21st Century?
Join Timothy Garton Ash, a leading defender of liberal democracy and historian of Europe, for this exclusive live interview with the IAI. As democratically elected populists challenge liberalism, seeing it as the ideology of the elite, we ask whether democracy and liberalism are in tension, and whether they can coexist.
"The best and most perceptive political writer of our time." — John Simpson
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Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a leading historian, political writer, and one of Europe’s most compelling defenders of free speech and liberal democracy. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Described by the US diplomat George Kennan as writing the "history of the present" — bearing witness to events as they unfold — Garton Ash's work has earned him the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, and the Order of St Michael and St George from the United Kingdom. He has written eleven books, with his twelfth, Europe in 7½ Chapters, due to be released in October.
"The best and most perceptive political writer of our time." — John Simpson
