Peter Paul Anatol Lieven (28 June 1960) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation

New America Foundation

The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute and think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, CA. It was founded in 1999 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead....

, where he focuses on US global strategy

Global Strategy

Global strategy as defined in business terms is an organization's strategic guide to globalization. A sound global strategy should address these questions: what must be the extent of market presence in the world's major markets? How to build the necessary global presence? What must be AND the...

 and the War on Terrorism

War on Terrorism

The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...

, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies

Department of War Studies, KCL

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 at King's College London

King's College London

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Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times

Financial Times

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covering Central Europe, with The Times

The Times

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(London) covering Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

, the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, and Russia

Russia

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 (including the First Chechen War

First Chechen War

The First Chechen War, also known as the War in Chechnya, was a conflict between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, fought from December 1994 to August 1996...

), and wrote from India

India

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 as a freelancer. He has also served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic studies in London

London

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, where he worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC

BBC

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. He received a B.A. in history and a doctorate in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

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Personal

Anatol Lieven is the third and youngest son and fourth child (of five children) of Alexander Lieven (of the Russian princely family

Lieven

The Lievens are one of the oldest and noblest families of Baltic Germans. They claim descent from Caupo of Turaida , the Livonian quasi rex who converted to Christianity in 1186, when Bishop Meinhard attempted to Christianize the region...

, tracing ancestry to Liv chieftain Kaupo) by his first wife, Irishwoman, Veronica Monaghan (d. 1979). He is the younger brother of academics Dominic Lieven

Dominic Lieven

Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge...

 and Elena Lieven

Elena Lieven

Elena Lieven is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig...

, and distantly related to the Christopher Lieven (1774–1839), Ambassador to the Court of St James 1812-1834, whose wife was Dorothea von Benckendorff, later Princess Lieven

Dorothea Lieven

HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven , née Benckendorff , a Baltic German noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right....

 (1785–1857), a notable society hostess. He is also the older brother of successful QC Nathalie Lieven.

Books by Anatol Lieven

• Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011)
• Ethical Realism (2006) with John Hulsman
• America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (2004)
• Ukraine and Russia: Fraternal Rivals (1999)
• Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (1998)
• The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence (1993) -- winner of the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Yale University Press Governors’ Award.

Articles by Anatol Lieven

• Book TV (C-SPAN) interview of Ralph Peters
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• New America Foundation
• Financial Times
• International Herald Tribune
• London Review of Books
• Le Monde Diplomatique
• The Guardian
• Atlantic Monthly
• The Nation
• The New Statesman
• Foreign Affairs
• American Prospect
• OpenDemocracy.net

Official Bios

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Random House
• Oxford University Press
• Harvard University
• AP Watt
• World Political Forum
• New America Foundation
• American Strategy Program (New America Foundation)
• Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program (New America Foundation)
• Carnegie Endwoment for International Peace
• King's College

Interviews with Anatol Lieven

• 2011.05.28 Interview with Anatol Lieven about "Pakistan: A Hard Country" in www.theglobaldispatches.com
• National Public Radio interviews
• BBC online interviews
• Chicago Public Radio interviews
• 2006.03.06 Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria (PBS, TV episode 209)
• 2005.09.25 Instituto Portugês de Relações Internacionais
• 2005.01.04 On Point (WBUR radio)
• 2004.12.01 Asia Source
• 2004.05.06 Conversations with History (Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
• 2003.09.08 CNN
• 2003.07.18 BBC
• 2002.05.31 USA Today
• 2000.03.23 CNN
• undated City Paper of Baltic States
• Video discussion/debate with Lieven and Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Specific Articles by Anatol Lieven

• 2008.10.01 "Heeding the lessons of another war with Maleeha Lodhi in International Herald Tribune
• 2007.03.26 "To Russia with Realism in The American Conservative
• 2007.03.17 "Eliot Cohen and Democratic Responsibility in The National Interest
• 2007.03.08 "Pakistan is the Priority" in The International Herald Tribune
• 2006.12.28 "The End of the West As We Know It" in The International Herald Tribune
• 2006.07.23 "Bush's Middle East Democracy Flop in The Los Angeles Times
• 2006.04.12 "How to Get Out of the Iran Trap" in The Washington Post
• 2006.03.19 "Why Are We Reheating the Cold War?" in The Los Angeles Times
• 2006.03.xx "A Long Voyage: As in India, the maintenance of social peace requires strict controls on free expression" in Prospect (UK)
• 2006.02.13 "Limits of Propaganda" in The Los Angeles Times
• 2003.07.19 "The Empire Strikes Back in The Nation
• 2002.10.03 "The Push for War in The London Review of Books
• Paul Theroff. Family genealogy