{"id":1134,"date":"2019-10-08T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:07:01","slug":"timothy-garton-ash-time-for-a-new-liberation-timothy-garton-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/timothy-garton-ash-time-for-a-new-liberation-timothy-garton-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Garton Ash: Time for a New Liberation? Timothy Garton Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> On the tenth anniversary of 1989, at the brink of the millennium, we  could celebrate both the original triumph of the velvet revolutions and  great subsequent progress. By the twentieth anniversary, in 2009, the  countries of Central Europe had become members of both <abbr>NATO<\/abbr>  and the EU, while political scientists described Hungary as a  \u201cconsolidated democracy.\u201d On this thirtieth anniversary, by contrast,  the question that forces itself onto dismayed lips is \u201cWhat went wrong?\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/On the tenth anniversary of 1989, at the brink of the millennium, we could celebrate both the original triumph of the velvet revolutions and great subsequent progress. By the twentieth anniversary, in 2009, the countries of Central Europe had become members of both NATO and the EU, while political scientists described Hungary as a \u201cconsolidated democracy.\u201d On this thirtieth anniversary, by contrast, the question that forces itself onto dismayed lips is \u201cWhat went wrong?\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The New York Review of Books (opens in a new tab)\">The New York Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the tenth anniversary of 1989, at the brink of the millennium, we could celebrate both the original triumph of the velvet revolutions and great subsequent progress. By the twentieth anniversary, in 2009, the countries of Central Europe had become members of both NATO and the EU, while political scientists described Hungary as a \u201cconsolidated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}