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About Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven is professor in the department of war studies at Kings College, London. He is also a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation and a member of the editorial board of The National Interest. His latest book is Pakistan: A Hard Country (Penguin, 2011)

Anatol Lieven's previous books include The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence (Yale University Press, 1993); Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power  (Yale University Press, 1998); America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2004); and (with John Hulsman) is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (Pantheon, 2006)

 

Articles by Anatol Lieven

Tuesday 21st June

Pakistan: the hard reality

Anatol Lieven, 21 June 2011
Pakistan is too often portrayed in flawed and reductive ways that flatten its complexity and offer misleading guidance to policy-makers. This makes it all the more important to acknowledge some difficult truths about the country, says Anatol Lieven.
Monday 25th October

Insights from the Afghan field

Anatol Lieven, 25 October 2010
Security policy in Afghanistan may be powered by sublimated imperial nostalgia, but most of the really valuable practical memories and lessons of empire have long since been forgotten. A review of three recent books on the Taliban
Monday 9th August

Understanding Pakistan's military

Anatol Lieven, 9 August 2010
A guided tour of Pakistan’s Army, from its role within Pakistani nationalism, prospects of mutiny, and the relationship of the ISI to the Jihadi world, to hostilities with India, suggests that some key ways of defusing the situation may be being neglected
Friday 8th May

Pakistan’s American problem

Anatol Lieven, 8 May 2009
A suspicion of the United States in Pakistan outweighs opposition to the Taliban
Wednesday 21st November

Pakistan: prospects and perils

Anatol Lieven, 21 November 2007
What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now
Tuesday 5th December

The Iran we have

Anatol Lieven, 5 December 2006
Should the United States open talks with Iran to help ease its crisis over Iraq? As the prospect of Washington-Tehran dialogue moves up the political agenda, Anatol Lieven takes issue with the view of the former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi.
Sunday 23rd July

Israel and the Arabs: peace, not diktats

Anatol Lieven, 23 July 2006
An agreed, just settlement of the core conflict between Israel and the Palestinians – not punitive Israeli expeditions – is the only way to peace in the middle east, says Anatol Lieven.
Thursday 22nd December

Large rocks in the stream ahead

Anatol Lieven, 22 December 2005
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the coming year. Since this is openDemocracy, we did not expect them to agree. We were not disappointed. (Part Two).
Wednesday 26th October

Democratic failure: festering lilies smell worse than weeds

Anatol Lieven, 26 October 2005
“We must keep firmly in mind that democracies can fail.” The barriers to democratic progress in the world today are far deeper than Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton allow, while Roger Scruton’s depiction of “the west and the rest” is equally flawed, argues Anatol Lieven.
Tuesday 22nd February

Bush's choice: messianism or pragmatism?

Anatol Lieven, 22 February 2005
George W Bush’s language of freedom is not benevolent idealism but ideological weapon, says Anatol Lieven.
Tuesday 19th October

Israel, the United States, and truth: a reply to Emanuele Ottolenghi

Anatol Lieven, 19 October 2004
Anatol Lieven responds to Emanuele Ottolenghi’s fierce criticism of him in openDemocracy.
Monday 18th October

Israel and the American antithesis

Anatol Lieven, 18 October 2004
The alliance between the United States and Israel has become a fusion of regressive nationalisms that carries great dangers for both states and for the world, says Anatol Lieven in an edited extract from the Israel chapter of his book, “America Right or Wrong”.
Tuesday 7th September

America right or wrong

Anatol Lieven, 7 September 2004
The Bush administration responded to 9/11 by exploiting a force deeply rooted in United States thinking and behaviour: American nationalism. This force, says Anatol Lieven in an extract from his new book America Right or wrong, is now deforming the country’s relationship with the world and damaging America itself.
Tuesday 17th September

Missionaries and marines: Bush, Blair and democratisation

Anatol Lieven, 17 September 2002
Britain is cultivating a wilful amnesia about the fall-out from empire and war, in supporting American calls for democracy throughout the Arab world. Applied to the Middle East, could anything be more dangerous?
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