(Peter Paul) Anatol Lieven (28 June 1960) is a British 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, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London.
Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times covering Central Europe, with The Times (London) covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia (including the First Chechen War), and wrote from India as a freelancer. 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 doctorate in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge.
Anatol Lieven is the third and youngest son and fourth child (of five children) of Alexander Lieven (of the Russian princely family, tracing ancestry to Liv chieftain Kaupo) by his first wife Veronica Monaghan (d. 1979). He is the younger brother of academics Dominic Lieven and Elena 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 (1785-1857), a notable society hostess.
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
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
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
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