Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven is a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Pakistan: A Hard Country. His most recent book, Climate Change and the Nation State, is appearing in an updated paperback edition in September 2021.

Articles by Anatol Lieven

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the porthole while aboard the presidential plane during the approach to the Russian air base in Hmeimim in the northwestern Syrian province of Latakia on December 11, 2017.

Russia Is Right on the Middle East

Argument |

November 30, 2021, 5:28 AM

Afghan Taliban fighters at Bakwah in the western province of Farah on Nov. 3, 2015.

The Taliban Can—and Can’t—Be Trusted

Argument |

August 19, 2021, 3:45 PM

Afghan children at an IDP camp

The Coming Afghan Refugee Crisis Is Only a Preview

Argument |

August 13, 2021, 2:53 PM

Xi Jinping

Stay Calm About China

Argument |

August 26, 2020, 10:53 AM

A Taliban representative attends international talks on Afghanistan in Moscow on Nov. 9, 2018. (Yuri Kodobnov/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s Time to Trust the Taliban

Argument |

January 31, 2019, 12:19 PM

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