Intro

Is democracy in decline today? What is “Post-Wall” Europe, born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and why is it now gone? How is Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion changing Europe? UkraineWorld invites Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His latest book is "Homelands: A Personal History of Europe". This episode is a recording of Professor Garton Ash’s meeting with the Ukrainian public in Kyiv, at the UkraineWorld Club and PEN Ukraine, on May 15th, 2024. It is part of UkraineWorld’s series Thinking in Dark Times. Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher, chief editor of UkraineWorld and president of PEN Ukraine UkraineWorld (ukraineworld.org) is brought to you by Internews Ukraine, one of Ukraine's largest media NGOs. Listen on various platforms: https://li.sten.to/explaining-ukraine Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld. We provide exclusive content for our patrons. The FULL conversation (with questions from the audience and replies by Timothy Garton Ash) is available for UkraineWorld's patrons at https://www.patreon.com/posts/timothy-garton-106112059 You can also support our volunteer trips to the front lines at PayPal: ukraine.resisting@gmail.com. Check two other conversations with Professor Garton Ash: Timothy Garton Ash on Ukraine’s role in Europe https://ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/ep-225 Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Lviv and Wounded Soldiers https://ukraineworld.org/en/videos/garton