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Anatol Lieven

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Anatol Lieven
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Anatol Lieven (born 28 June 1960) is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is currently a visiting professor at King's College London and senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.[1][2][3][4] He is a contributor to the Valdai Discussion Club.[5]

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Background

Peter Paul Anatol Lieven was born on 28 June 1960 in South London to Alexander Pavlovich Lieven [de] and Veronica Eileen Mary Lieven (née Monahan).[6] His siblings include Elena Lieven, Dominic Lieven, and Dame Nathalie Lieven. He attended the City of London School, and received a BA in history and a PhD in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge.[1][3][7]

Career

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Journalist and academic

In the mid-1980s, Lieven was a journalist with the Financial Times covering Pakistan and Afghanistan, while also covering India as a freelancer.[2][3][8] In the latter half of 1989, he covered the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Romania for the Times.[2] In 1990, he worked for The Times (London) covering the former USSR, during which time he covered the Chechen War (1994–1996).[2][3] In 1998, he edited Strategic Comments at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, while also working for the Eastern Services of the BBC.[3]

In 2000 through 2005, Lieven was a senior associate for foreign and security policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2][3] Lieven served as chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London, where he remains a visiting professor.[3] In 2006, Lieven became a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service at its campus in Qatar.[1][3] Since 2005, Lieven has been a senior researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism.[1][3]

In August 2024, political scientist Hans Gutbrod, a lecturer at Ilia State University, stated that a description by Lieven of the Georgian internal political conflict between Georgian Dream and opposition groups was oversimplified, omitted evidence of physical violence by governmental forces, and was overall misleading.[9]

Book author

Lieven's 2011 book Pakistan: A Hard Country was based on Lieven's experiences of covering the country. Lisa Kaaki of Arab News said, "This book gives an insight into the soul of Pakistan, a country often misunderstood and wrongly portrayed in the media".[10] The Independent called the book, "a finely researched blend of the nation's 64-year history."[11]

Lieven's America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism was published in 2004. In Foreign Affairs the book was described as "intelligent and often provocative"[12] whilst in The Guardian the book was praised by Martin Woollacott who wrote: "It is Anatol Lieven's contention in this illuminating book that Bin Laden's assault on the United States stripped away many of the remaining restraints on the intolerant, irrational, and self-destructive side of American nationalism. Whether this nationalism is a greater problem than that represented by Islamic extremism is a moot point, but it is clear that the combination of the two could bring disaster on us all".[13]

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Awards

  • 1994: Orwell Prize for a political book, for The Baltic Revolution[1][14]
  • 1993: Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review[15]
  • 1993: Yale University Press Governors' Award for The Baltic Revolution[1][4]

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