Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven (born 28 June 1960) is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. Lieven is a visiting professor at King's College London, and is a senior fellow and the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is currently based in Washington, D.C. His siblings include Elena Lieven, Dominic Lieven, and Dame Nathalie Lieven. He attended the City of London School, and received a BA in history and a PhD in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge.

Career

Journalist and academic

In the mid-1980s, Lieven was a journalist with the Financial Times covering Pakistan and Afghanistan, while also covering India as a freelancer. In the latter half of 1989, he covered the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Romania for the Times. The Independent called the book, "a finely researched blend of the nation's 64-year history."

Lieven's America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism was published in 2004. In Foreign Affairs the book was described as "intelligent and often provocative" whilst in The Guardian the book was praised by Martin Woollacott who wrote: "It is Anatol Lieven's contention in this illuminating book that Bin Laden's assault on the United States stripped away many of the remaining restraints on the intolerant, irrational, and self-destructive side of American nationalism. Whether this nationalism is a greater problem than that represented by Islamic extremism is a moot point, but it is clear that the combination of the two could bring disaster on us all".

Awards 1994: Orwell Prize for a political book, for The Baltic Revolution 1993: Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review 1993: Yale University Press Governors' Award for The Baltic Revolution