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A Reality Check | Dawn

January 30, 2012

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 ...

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Alpine Ambivalence: Reflections On Davos 2012 | National Geographic

January 30, 2012

Having absorbed the adulation from writers such as Parag Khanna, as well as condemnations from critics of contemporary capitalism such as Noam Chomsky, I will provide my own observations of spending a very full five days immersed from 7am to midnight ...

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The Mystery Of What Pakistan Wants | The Friday Times

January 26, 2012

Writing in The New York Review of Books (9 Feb 2012), Anatol Lieven states: 'Just what the Pakistani security elite is really aiming at is extremely difficult to work out. Quite apart from the levels of opacity and deceit in which Pakistani policy is ...

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Behind The Arab Revolts, An Activist Quietly Pulling Strings From Boston | The Atlantic

January 25, 2012

I don't know how he does it." I ask Andrew Lebovich, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation focusing on the Sahel region, the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of Weddady. "Everywhere," he replies, "all the time."

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The Other Establishment | The Express Tribune

January 21, 2012

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. ...

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Is Pakistan Heading For A Coup? | Channel 4 News

January 20, 2012

Professor Anatol Lieven is a Pakistan expert at King's College London. He told Channel 4 News that "memogate" could push the military to act. "My own reading is that the thing is genuine and the military are furious, and now in a way that they didn't ...

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Russian 'Spy Rock' Was Genuine, Former Chief of Staff Admits | The Telegraph (U.K.)

January 19, 2012

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 ...

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The New Generation in North Africa and the Middle East | Analysis - Eurasia Review

January 18, 2012

Saidam also doubts that the Middle East will be a stable region again in one year's time and even fears the start of a war between the Israelis and the Palestinians if Israel does not agree to change its politics. Daniel Levy of the New America ...

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Should the UN Admit Palestine as a Full Member State? | NPR

January 17, 2012

Daniel Levy is co-director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force and an editor for the The Middle East Channel at ForeignPolicy.com. He is a senior fellow at both The Century Foundation and the European Council on Foreign Relations. ...

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Kadyrov's 'Chechen Sufism' Accommodates Christmas Trees, 'Holy Water' | Radio Free Europe

January 16, 2012

Tombstone of Russian Power," the British scholar Anatol Lieven quotes Chechen friends who explained to him that it was not considered a sin to deny one's membership of a Sufi "vird" (brotherhood), or even to consume pork while serving in the Soviet ...

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