Professor Anatol Lieven
Department of War Studies
Room K6.25
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Email:
anatol.lieven@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2670
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2026
Office hours: Wednesdays 10.00 – 12.00
Areas of interest
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Insurgency and counter-insurgency
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Terrorism
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Islamist movements
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Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran
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Russia and the former Soviet Union
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US political culture and strategy
Biography
Anatol Lieven has a BA in history and a PhD in political science from the University of Cambridge. From 1986 to 1998 he worked as a British journalist, mainly in the former Soviet Union and South Asia. During this period he covered the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Chechen war of 1994-96 and other conflicts.
In recent years Anatol Lieven has worked chiefly on aspects of the “war on terror”, including contemporary US global strategy and its background in US history and political culture. He writes a monthly column for the Financial Times, and is published frequently in other newspapers and journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the National Interest and a convenor of the
Russia and Eurasia Security Research Group
Professor Lieven has travelled extensively for research in Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world. His recent book, Pakistan: A Hard Country was selected by the Daily Telegraph as one of the '2011 Books of Year.'
Doctoral supervision
Anatol Lieven is interested in supervising PhDs in the follwing areas:
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Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran
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Islamist terrorism and extremism
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US strategy, both in the "war on terror" and globally
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US political culture
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Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Publications
In 1998-2000 Professor Lieven edited Strategic Comments at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 2000-2005 he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. In 2005 he became a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation, a position he continues to hold.
In 2004 he published America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (Oxford University Press and Harper Collins), a study of the history and nature of American nationalism and its impact on US foreign policy. Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World, co-authored with John Hulsman, (Pantheon, 2006) contains an analysis of America’s strategic position, and recommendations for future strategy, drawing on the philosophical insights of Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans Morgenthau.
His lastest book, 'Pakistan: A Hard Country' (Penguin, April 2011) was selected by the Daily Telegraph and the Economist as a '2011 Book of the Year'