Anatol Lieven

In the mid-1980s, Lieven a journalist with the Financial Times covering Pakistan and Afghanistan, while also covering India as a freelancer.[2][3][6] 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 1996, Lieven became a visiting senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace through 1997.[2] 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]

Lieven's areas of expertise and interest include: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Terrorism, Islamist movements, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and the former Soviet Union, US political culture and strategy.[3] He has spoken as an expert to the British Parliament and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United States Congress and United States Department of State, and the French Foreign Ministry, as well as universities and institutes.[1] 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 Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London. He remains a visiting professor there.[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]

• Climate Change and the Nation State (2020)
• Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011); as a Penguin pocketbook (2012)
• Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (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)

• "Realism and Progress: Niebuhr's Thought and Contemporary Challenges," in Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics: God and Power (2010)
• "The future of US foreign policy," US Foreign Policy (2008)
• "A Spreading Danger: Time for a New Policy Toward Chechnya, Carnegie Policy Brief #35, (2005)
• "Ambivalent Neighbors: The EU, NATO and the Price of Membership" with Dmitri Trenin (2003)
• "Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry" (1999)

• "Why global warming needs national solutions," Prospect (magazine) (2020)[9]
• "Pakistan: The Mess We Can't Ignore," New York Review of Books (2014)
• "A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Bosnia remade: ethnic cleansing and its reversal Response," Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2012)
• "Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers," New York Review of Books (2012)
• "Military Exceptionalism in Pakistan," Survival (2011)
• "How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan," The Nation (2011)
• "Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power," Perspectives on Politics (2010)
• "The Making of Modern Afghanistan," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2010)
• "For a New US Policy Toward Russia Washington simply cannot afford confrontation, given the challenges we face elsewhere," The Nation (2009)
• "Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme," Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2009)
• "The war in Afghanistan: its background and future prospects," Conflict, Security & Development (2009)
• "A Difficult Country: Pakistan and the Case for Developmental Realism," The National Interest (2007)
• "The Secret Policeman's Ball: The United States, Russia and the International Order after 11 September," International Affairs (2002)

• 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 on Bloggingheads.tv