Anatol Lieven

Director of Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program and Andrew Bacevich Chair of American Diplomatic History at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC. He was a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar from 2014 to 2021. He holds a BA and PhD from Cambridge University in England.

His latest book, Climate Change and the Nation State, was published in paperback in 2021 by Penguin (UK) and Oxford University Press (US).

From 1986 to 1998, Anatol Lieven worked as a British journalist in South Asia, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and is author of several books on these regions including Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011) and Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry (1999) that warned of the danger of war in Ukraine. His book The Baltic Revolutions: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Oxford University Press Governor’s Award. America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (updated second edition 2012) delineated the main dividing lines in US politics and political culture concerning national identity and foreign policy.

He writes frequently for the media, and his articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Time and Newsweek.