About Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. A new, updated edition of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, was republished in September 2012 by Oxford University Press.
Articles by Anatol Lieven
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No to TTIP
Constitutional conventions: best practice
Pakistan’s American problem
A suspicion of the United States in Pakistan outweighs opposition to the Taliban. Understand this and much else becomes clear, says Anatol Lieven.
(This article was first published on 6 May 2009)
The Iran we have
Israel and the Arabs: peace, not diktats
Democratic failure: festering lilies smell worse than weeds
I have to endorse most of what John Dunn argues in his response to Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hiltons article Democracy and openDemocracy.
Bush's choice: messianism or pragmatism?
Israel, the United States, and truth: a reply to Emanuele Ottolenghi
Israel and the American antithesis
America right or wrong
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 countrys relationship with the world and damaging America itself.
Missionaries and marines: Bush, Blair and democratisation
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?
