Europe at the beginning of a new era - Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture 2024 by LSE European Institute Podcasts published on 2024-10-31T14:30:47Z The guest speaker of the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture 2024 is Timothy Garton Ash. Under the title of Europe at the Beginning of a New Era he will be discussing his latest book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. In it, Timothy Garton Ash argued that there was a distinct ‘post-Wall’ era of European history which began on 9 November 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and ended on 24 February 2022, with Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If that is true, what are the defining characteristics of the new era? And what the key challenges that follow for Europe in this period? For a conventional historian 'It's too soon to say’, but for a ‘historian of the present’, and even more for European policy makers, some tentative answers must be attempted. Genre Learning
