Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West Reprint Edition

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“We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it.” In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism about Euro-American relations, award-winning historian Timothy Garton Ash shares an inspiring vision for how the United States and Europe can collaborate to promote a free world.At the start of the twenty-first century, the West has plunged into crisis. Europe tries to define itself in opposition to America, and America increasingly regards Europe as troublesome and irrelevant. What is to become of what we used to call “the free world”? Part history, part manifesto, Free World offers both a scintillating assessment of our current geopolitical quandary and a vitally important argument for the future of liberty and the shared values of the West.About the AuthorTimothy Garton Ash is the author of seven previous books of political writing and “history of the present,” which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter century. They include The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity, The Magic Lantern, The File, and History of the Present. He is the Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, and he writes a column in the Guardian that is syndicated across Europe and the Americas.

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To the Reader PART ONE | CRISISA Crisis of the West Chapter One • Janus BritainPutney—Island world, world island — Janus between Europe and America — Four strategies — Churchill and Churchillisms — The Blair bridge project —S o now?Chapter Two • Europe as Not-America A Nation is proclaimed — Five hundred million characters in search of an Other — Gaullism versus Churchillism — German emotions — Is Europe better than America? — Euroatlanticism — A power for what?Chapter Three • America, the PowerfulInside the giant — A tale of two new Europes — European Americans at work — Unilateralism — War — Return to a new starting point — Partner?Chapter Four • The New Red ArmiesTerror against hope — Near East — Far East — Rich North, poor South — Humans threaten Earth — Together? Crisis as Opportunity PART TWO | OPPORTUNITYTwenty Years and a Thousand Million Citizens Chapter Five • Britain Finds Its RoleChapter Six • What Europe Can BeChapter Seven • Uncle SamChapter Eight • Toward a Free WorldWhat Can We Do? Afterword to the Vintage EditionMapsFree World Web.NetNotesAcknowledgments Index