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(Peter Paul) Anatol Lieven (b. 1960) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 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 located in Washington, D.C. that promotes innovative political solutions transcending conventional party lines....
, 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 the optimal locations around the world for the various...
 and the War on Terrorism
War on Terrorism

The War on Terrorism or War on Terror are the common terms for the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism and Muslim militants, and specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, since the September 11 attacks....
, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London
King's College London

King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
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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

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a formally private, nonprofit organization, in practice closely associated with the United States Department of State, many President of the United States, "numerous private foreign affairs groups" and the leaders of major US political parties....
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(Peter Paul) Anatol Lieven (b. 1960) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 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 located in Washington, D.C. that promotes innovative political solutions transcending conventional party lines....
, 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 the optimal locations around the world for the various...
 and the War on Terrorism
War on Terrorism

The War on Terrorism or War on Terror are the common terms for the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism and Muslim militants, and specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, since the September 11 attacks....
, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London
King's College London

King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
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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

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a formally private, nonprofit organization, in practice closely associated with the United States Department of State, many President of the United States, "numerous private foreign affairs groups" and the leaders of major US political parties....
. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 covering Central Europe, with The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
 of London covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia (including the First Chechen War
First Chechen War

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's de facto independence from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria....
), and wrote freelance from India as a freelance journalist. He has also served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic studies in London, where he worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC. He received a B.A. in history and a Ph.D. in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College in the University of Cambridge was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock , then Bishop of Ely. It has been traditionally believed that the nunnery was turned into a college because the nunnery had gained a reputation for promiscuity....
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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 Livs 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 Veronica Monaghan (d. 1979). He is the younger brother of academic Dominic Lieven, 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

Countess, later HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven , n?e Benckendorff , a Russian 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.

Bibliography


Books by Anatol Lieven

  • 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

  • (C-SPAN) interview of Ralph Peters
    Ralph Peters

    Ralph Peters is a retired United States Army Lieutenant colonel ,novelist and essayist. He has sometimes written under the nom-de-plume Owen Parry....
  • (New America Foundation)

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Official Bios

  • (New America Foundation)
  • (New America Foundation)


Interviews with Anatol Lieven

  • interviews
  • interviews
  • interviews
  • 2006.03.06 with Fareed Zakaria (PBS, TV episode 209)
  • 2005.09.25
  • 2005.01.04 (WBUR radio)
  • 2004.12.01
  • 2004.05.06 (Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
  • 2003.09.08
  • 2003.07.18
  • 2002.05.31
  • 2000.03.23
  • undated
  • and Anne-Marie Slaughter
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and current Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University....
     on Bloggingheads.tv
    Bloggingheads.tv

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Specific Articles by Anatol Lieven

  • 2008.10.01 " with Maleeha Lodhi in International Herald Tribune
  • 2007.03.26 " in The American Conservative
  • 2007.03.17 " in The National Interest
  • 2007.03.08 "" in The International Herald Tribune
  • 2006.12.28 "" in The International Herald Tribune
  • 2006.07.23 " in The Los Angeles Times
  • 2006.04.12 "" in The Washington Post
  • 2006.03.19 "" in The Los Angeles Times
  • 2006.03.xx "" in Prospect (UK)
  • 2006.02.13 "" in The Los Angeles Times
  • 2003.07.19 " in The Nation
  • 2002.10.03 " in The London Review of Books
  • Paul Theroff.