Niall Ferguson's Blog

Why the EU's fall is more likely than the euro's
The Japan Times
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010 governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece and Italy. ...

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Why EU Collapse is More Likely Than the Fall of the Euro
OregonLive.com
By Guest Columnist By Niall Ferguson European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010 governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece and Italy. Spain's government was just ...

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EU at greater risk than euro
Winnipeg Free Press
But the thing that could cause the European Union to topple, or at least shrink in size, would be the outright withdrawal of Britain. And that has started to look quite possible. Niall Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard University, ...

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Will euro-worry sink the EU?
Guelph Mercury
But the thing that could cause the European Union to topple, or at least shrink in size, would be the outright withdrawal of Britain. And that has started to look quite possible. Niall Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard University, ...

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EU more at risk than the euro
The Canberra Times
The possibility that states such as Britain may leave the union is what really worries Eurocrats. European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010, governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, ...

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Why EU collapse is more likely than the fall of the euro
Washington Post
European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010 governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece and Italy. The question is not: Who will be next? That's easy. ...

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Wall Street Journal
2021: The New Europe
Wall Street Journal
Niall Ferguson peers into Europe's future and sees Greek gardeners, German sunbathers—and a new fiscal union. Welcome to the other United States. By NIALL FERGUSON 'Life is still far from easy in the peripheral states of the United States of Europe (as ...

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Harvard Affiliates' Books Draw Press Attention
Harvard Magazine
In Civilization: The West and the Rest (Penguin), Tisch professor of history Niall Ferguson (profiled in this Harvard Magazine feature) responds to the question: How did a collection of relatively poor, perpetually warring, and scientifically backward ...

Macleans.ca
REVIEW: Civilization: The West and the Rest
Macleans.ca
The larger problem, though, is that neither critics nor supporters seem able to distinguish between a culture's technical and moral merits—for those on the political left, even Ferguson's attempt to do so is simply disguised Western triumphalism. ...

Why the West is losing out to the rest
CNN
It says it all when Europe turns to China for a bailout. That was what happened last week when the man in charge of the European Financial Stability Fund flew to Beijing to see if he could interest Chinese investors in propping up the finances of the ...

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