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LIEVEN, Anatol

Anatol Lieven

Professor, director of Research on Terrorism and International Relations at King’s College, London, senior fellow of the New America Foundation Fund, Washington.  Member of the Valdai Discussion Club.


Previous positions: correspondent for The Times in South Asia and former Soviet Union; Editor-in-chief of the Strategic Comments magazine.

Selected publications: Author of several books devoted to the former Soviet Union, including “Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power”(1998), “Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry”(1999), “Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism” (2004), and “Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World”(2006) (co-author).

 

 

Last Publications

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Chairman of Eurasian Economic Commission Board Viktor Khristenko
12:46 23/04/2012

Protests aside, the people chose Putin

Many Russians, who reasonably enough compare Russia with its neighbours and not with the West, still find this enough to support Putin. Above all, perhaps, the President has based much of his image for the past 12 years on the contrast with his predecessor Boris Yeltsin.

Remains of Berlin Wall
10:01 30/01/2012

The Cold War and the Post-Cold War World

Rather than a future in which Chinese hegemony will replace that of the United States, we seem to be rapidly entering a world in which no country will exercise anything resembling true world leadership. This bears a sinister resemblance to the 1920s, when the United States replaced Britain as the world’s leading economic power, but was wholly unwilling to shoulder additional burdens of global leadership.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the United Russia party's 12th pre-election convention
13:10 05/12/2011

Is there any future for United Russia party without Putin?

United Russia played an important part in pulling the political system together, and, generally, in helping to restore the authority of the government and the state. In what form it will continue and what its agenda will be is difficult to say, as Mr. Putin will clearly be in power for at least six years, and possibly twelve.

'Yars' mobile missile system in Ivanovo region
10:07 02/12/2011

Missile defence system threatens nuclear balance of power

What the United States is doing is clearly a threat, if only in the long term, to the nuclear balance of power. As such, it challenges the agreed order that Moscow and Washington drew up a long time ago to govern their respective nuclear deterrents.

Dmitry Medvedev attends G8 summit in Deauville, France
09:54 11/10/2011

U.S.-Russian Relations and the Rise of China

The U.S. strategy of subordinating and marginalizing Russia not just on the world stage but within Russia's own region came to an end in 2008-2010 with the Georgian war and the global economic crisis. These events finished off at least for a generation – and probably forever – the desire of European Union states for further eastward expansion.

V. Putin on expedition to Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Preserve
11:21 06/10/2011

Putin’s Character: Discipline and loyalty drawn from a tough life growing up followed by the world of the KGB

The first impression on meeting Vladimir Putin is how short he. Immediately counter-balancing this is an impression of intense physical energy, intensely controlled. At 58, and after 11 years in power, Putin still looks as if he were in his late 40s, and fit enough to keep going in power for a great many years to come.

Kabul, Afghanistan
11:41 22/06/2011

US strategy in Afghanistan resembles that of the Soviet Union

A horribly plausible scenario for the future looks like this. The Afghan civilian regime disintegrates after Karzai steps down in 2014, leading to a coup by the Tajik commanders of the Army. This is followed by a counter-coup by Pashtun troops, and civil war in the government controlled areas.

 
 
 


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