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Pakistan's Sharif Says Talks With Taliban Militants An Option | Bloomberg News

May 21, 2013

The accords failed to bring peace, Anatol Lieven, a professor at London's King's College and author of “Pakistan: A Hard Country,” said in a May 12 interview. “The Pakistani Taliban made bigger and bigger gains. There is a real risk that will start ...

Appeasing the Taleban Would Be a Fatal Error

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  • Anatol Lieven,
  • New America Foundation
May 13, 2013 |

Pakistan’s Last Shot at Staying Democratic

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  • Anatol Lieven,
  • New America Foundation
May 10, 2013 |

Pakistan Marks Democratic Milestone In Close-Fought Election | Reuters Canada

May 10, 2013

"The problems facing the new government will be immense, and this may be the last chance that the country's existing elites have to solve them," said Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College, London, and author of a book on Pakistan. "If the lives ...

Elite Stranglehold Of Pakistan Politics A Pox On Progress | The Australian

April 23, 2013

But how to help rid Pakistan of its inner demons and problems when most of its own elites have no will to do so will go on baffling policymakers across the globe. Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department of King's College London and ...

Islamist Anger Feeds on Chechnya History

  • By
  • Anatol Lieven,
  • New America Foundation
April 22, 2013 |

Anonymous Murder From A Safe Distance | The Japan Times

April 16, 2013

Anatol Lieven has a splendid and thoroughly knowledgeable article in the April 4 issue of the New York Review of Books, on the politics of disengaging from the war in Afghanistan. He concludes that it would be dishonorable and unreasonable for the U.S ...

Pakistan: A Hard Country | Arab News

April 9, 2013

The recent publication of Anatol Lieven's latest book, “Pakistan a Hard Country,” fills a crucial gap. It has received excellent reviews, which are entirely justified. The author has a deep level of understanding about the country, since he reported ...

Anonymous Murder From A Safe Distance | Chicago Tribune

April 9, 2013

Anatol Lieven has a splendid and thoroughly knowledgeable article in the April 4 issue of the New York Review of Books, on the politics of disengaging from the war in Afghanistan. He concludes that it would be dishonorable and unreasonable for the ...

Are The Americans Really Pulling Out? | The Express Tribune

March 24, 2013

Well … they're not going to pull out, according to Anatol Lieven, British author, journalist and policy analyst, who addressed a select audience in Karachi on March 20. It's just the ground troops who will be sent back. Not the cavalry. In a 45-minute ...

Pakistan Will Continue To Face Drone Attacks: Anatol Lieven | The News International

March 20, 2013

This was the prognosis of Anatol Lieven, a scholar from the War Studies Department of King's College, London, while speaking to a compact gathering at the Oxford University Press (Pakistan) bookshop here on Wednesday afternoon. He was of the view that ...

Anatol Lieven Explains Why The U.S. Won't Really Withdraw From Afghanistan | The Express Tribune

March 20, 2013

KARACHI: Eminent author and journalist Anatol Lieven summarised how the much-anticipated United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 would actually play out during a talk at the Oxford University Press office on Wednesday. “The US is not ...

Karzai Opponents Open Talks With Taliban, Warlord | Kansas City Star

March 18, 2013

"It's no secret that almost nobody wants any version of the Karzai clan to remain in power," said Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain who has met with current and former members of the Taliban. But he ...

AP Exclusive: Karzai Opponents Talk To Taliban | The Associated Press

March 18, 2013

"It's no secret that almost nobody wants any version of the Karzai clan to remain in power," said Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain who has met with current and former members of the Taliban. But he ...

Iraq Ten Years After | Daily Beast

March 18, 2013

In due course, Anatol Lieven reviewed the book in The Nation, and he called us all out as liberal hawks. It was really only then that I realized that I had contributed the lead-off essay to an important, nay defining, liberal hawk volume! But I wrote ...

Freed Afghan Taliban Fighters Return To Insurgency | Canton Daily Ledger

February 22, 2013

Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain, questioned the value of Karzai's goodwill gestures because his second and final term as president ends in 2014, which coincides with the end of the troop drawdown ...

Freed Taliban Fighters Return To Insurgency | Armytimes.Com

February 21, 2013

Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain, questioned the value of Karzai's goodwill gestures because his second and final term as president ends in 2014, which coincides with the end of the troop drawdown ...

Afghan Taliban Freed By Pakistan, At Afghanistan's Request, Returning To ... | Plain Dealer

February 21, 2013

Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain, questioned the value of Karzai's goodwill gestures because his second and final term as president ends in 2014, which coincides with the end of the troop drawdown ...

Freed Afghan Taliban Return To The Fight | Military.Com

February 21, 2013

Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain, questioned the value of Karzai's goodwill gestures because his second and final term as president ends in 2014, which coincides with the end of the troop drawdown ...

Freed Afghan Taliban Fighters Return To Insurgency | The Associated Press

February 21, 2013

Anatol Lieven, a professor in the War Studies Department at King's College in Britain, questioned the value of Karzai's goodwill gestures because his second and final term as president ends in 2014, which coincides with the end of the troop drawdown ...

Comment : Who's Afraid of Ayesha Siddiqa? — Dr Mohammad Taqi | Pakistan Daily Times

February 20, 2013

Dr Siddiqa has herself stated that she was kept out of the KLF because she was perceived as a stern moderator by the pro-Pakistan army author Anatol Lieven at last year's KLF. I am afraid that Dr Siddiqa is looking at just the tip of the iceberg. Dr ...

The Under Researched Pakistani | The Express Tribune

February 9, 2013

Thus, even seminal western works like Professor Anatol Lieven's Pakistan; a hard country focus more on the opinions of the elite in the country who are different from the masses, or the radical, who is anyways the extreme manifestation of the common ...

Reviews Round-Up | New Statesman

February 5, 2013

Nevertheless, Edis concedes that, “overwrought comparisons with the present aside, this book is a masterpiece of nuanced writing and research.” For Anatol Lieven in the Financial Times, there is much to be learned from this book. He praises Dalrymple ...

Afghanistan Set To Enter The Drone Age; Kabul Hopes For Spy Drones To Increase ... | Avionics Intelligence

January 26, 2013

“This news will certainly not be welcome to Pakistan,” said Anatol Lieven, professor in the War Studies Department of King's College London, and an authority on Pakistan. “But as far as I can make out the Pakistani military are not unduly worried ...

The Geopolitics Of Pakistan's Shi'A Problem | The Diplomat

January 23, 2013

The Hazara population has essentially been faithful to the state and has a sizeable constituency inside the Pakistani military, according to Anatol Lieven. Losing the support of the Hazaras could therefore prove problematic for Islamabad especially if ...

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