Anatol Lieven

King's College London; New America Foundation

Anatol Lieven is Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The Times (London), and India as a freelance journalist. He has served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he also worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC.

Featured Work

MAY 2, 2011 Podcast

Anatol Lieven on Pakistan

Pakistan expert Anatol Lieven unravels Pakistan's troubled and complex relationships with the U.S., Afghanistan, the Taliban, and its own army--and adds a special note ...

OCT 5, 2010 Podcast

Pakistan, the United States, and the West: David Speedie Interviews Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven discusses Pakistan's surprising degree of stability; the role of the army and ISI; the drug trade; and Pakistan's relationship with the U.S., ...

JUN 26, 2007 Podcast

Transatlantic Relations After the G8

Lieven explores the increasing complexity of US-EU-Russian relations due to energy interdependence, stalled eastward expansion of the EU, and the overall diminished power of the ...