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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student Session with Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, The New America Foundation in the Malkin Penthouse.
Anatol Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation, focusing on U.S. global strategy and the war on terror. His new book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, delivers an unexpected perspective on the country and region. Far from seeing Pakistan as the failed state often portrayed in the media, Lieven's extraordinary new book instead treats it as a viable and coherent state that, within the limits of its own region, does work. Lieven argues strongly against U.S. military strategies that would risk destroying that state in the illusory search for victory in Afghanistan.
“Concern for the effects of the US military presence in Afghanistan on the situation in Pakistan is one of the strongest arguments for bringing that presence to an end as soon as this can honorably be achieved; and under no circumstances whatsoever conducting more wars against Muslim states.” [Anatol Lieven, Pakistan: A Hard Country]
Anatol Lieven is a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and 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. In London, he was an editor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC. Mr. Lieven is the author of numerous books on foreign policy, including his work on American political culture, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, published by Oxford University Press in 2004. Mr. Lieven holds a B.A. in history and a doctorate in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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