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PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/EXPRESS “Drama sells beautifully,” said Anatol Lieven, “You see a headline, 'Pakistan on the edge of destruction' it does wonders for selling the news. Lieven, a British journalist, was speaking with The Express Tribune at a talk ...

Anatol Lieven, the celebrated author of wrote the other day about “a strong tendency in US official circles and in the US media to treat the Pakistani state as the enemy in Afghanistan”. This untenable over-simplification of a highly complex phenomenon ...

In his perceptive book Pakistan — A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven says power is something which is 'negotiated'. What he means is at every strata of society, people jostle for power to protect themselves, their kith and kin, and their rights. ...

Anatol Lieven, an expert in Russia at King's College, London, said: "The Russian authorities were always quite sure that this was a case of spying, even though they were accused of paranoia at the time, and there is no reason this will cause them to ...

In his book Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven described how Pakistan is still governed by the "traditions of overriding loyalty to family, clan and religion" . According to Lieven, Pakistan's political parties are "congeries of landlords, ...

Most recently, British journalist-turned-academic Anatol Lieven, in his book Pakistan: A Hard Country exposes this fundamental anomaly in the makeup of Pakistani democracy: the voter, especially in peri-urban and rural areas is so firmly entrenched in ...

British soldiers conduct a reconnaissance mission in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand Province Ex-CIA official Bruce Riedel, Pakistan expert Anatol Lieven and former European Union diplomat Michael Semple - expelled from Afghanistan for holding ...

Anatol Lieven , Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College, London, analyses pressing geopolitics in his book Pakistan: A Hard Country. As participants at the Bonn Conference pledged conti-nued support to stabilising ...

The mood at this year’s Valdai Club meeting was gloomy, which was inevitable since it took place against a background of the stagnation in Russia and the United States and the crisis in Europe. In Russia, both state and society appear to lack the capacity for internal regeneration. If this is so, then Russia can still continue fairly successfully along its present path as long as energy prices remain high, but it will not build up the kind of new economy that will be able to replace energy as a source of wealth in the long term.

... ''destabilising and radicalising Pakistan, risking a geopolitical catastrophe for the United States - and the world - which would dwarf anything that could possibly occur in Afghanistan'', quoting a British military/Pakistan analyst, Anatol Lieven. ...

As Anatol Lieven observes in Pakistan: A Hard Country, “barely 1 per cent of the population pays income tax, and the wealthiest landowners pay no direct taxes at all.” As a Peshawar tax auditor told him, “If anyone took taxes seriously, ...

Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College London, is studying the impact of the rise of China on Russia. “Russia, as a whole, would be reduced to something like being the Canada to a Chinese United States," said Lieven. "That's a prospect that the ...