Dieser Autor untersucht die komplexen geopolitischen und historischen Wege von Nationen, die sich an der Schnittstelle von Großmächten befinden. Seine Arbeit taucht tief in die Mechanismen der nationalen Identitätsbildung und die Prozesse der Unabhängigkeitserlangung ein. Leser werden seine scharfsinnige Analyse schätzen, wie historische Ereignisse die gegenwärtigen politischen Landschaften prägen.
In this profound and sophisticated analysis of Pakistan's history and its social, religious and political structures, Lieven argues strongly against U.S. actions that would risk destroying that state in the illusory search for victory in Afghanistan
Almost fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the process of creating a "Europe whole and free" is incomplete and likely to be so for the foreseeable future. In this volume, a group of highly distinguished contributors from both East and West examines the complicated and multi-faceted process of NATO and EU enlargement in the context of the changed global situation since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This book examines the enlargement processes not only from the perspective of the West and western institutions, but also from the point of view of the former communist countries. If an enlarged NATO and EU are to be stable and successful in the long run, they must take account of the wishes and interests of both their new, former-communist members and those European states that will not become members of either NATO or the EU in the foreseeable future Contributors include Christopher Bobinski (Unia & Polska), Vladimir Baranovsky (Institute of the World Economy and International Relations), Heather Grabbe (Center for European Reform), Karl-Heinz Kamp (Konrad Adenauer Foundation), Charles King (Georgetown University), Alexander J. Motyl (Center for Global Change and Governance), Zaneta Ozolina (University of Latvia), Alexander Sergounin (Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University), William Wallace (London School of Economics), and Leonid Zaiko (Strategy Center).
In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions more of us; the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognisable to their predecessors; scientific change has transformed us all in confusing, terrible and miraculous ways. Anatol Lieven's major new book provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate change. This is a vast challenge, but we have often in the past had to deal with such challenges- the industrial revolution, major wars and mass migration have seen mobilizations of human energy on the greatest scale. Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and unpalatable, so do we. In a series of incisive, compelling interventions, Lieven shows how in this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state. The drastic action required both to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism but through maintaining social cohesion and through our current governmental, fiscal and military structures. This is a book which will provoke innumerable discussions.
The war between Russia and the Chechen separatist forces, from December 1994 to August 1996, was a key moment in Russian and even world history, shedding a stark light on the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power. Anatol Lieven, a distinguished writer and political commentator, was a correspondent for the London Times in the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1996 and was commended for his coverage of the Chechen War by the British Press Association.In this major new work of history and analysis, Lieven sets Russia’s humiliation at the hands of a tiny group of badly organized guerrillas in a plausible framework for the first time. He offers both a riveting eyewitness account of the war itself and a sophisticated and multifaceted explanation for the Russian defeat. Highlighting the numerous ways in which Russian society and culture differ today from the simplistic stereotypes still current in much of Western analysis, he explores the reasons for the current weakness of Russian nationalism both within the country and among the Russian diaspora.In the final part of the book Lieven examines the Chechen tradition, providing the first in-depth anthropological portrait in English of this extraordinary fighting people. In his representation of the character of the Chechen nation, Lieven contributes to the continuing debate between "constructivist" and "primordialist" theories of the origins of nationalism and examines the role of both historical experience and religion in the formation of national identity.
Depuis le 11 septembre, les Américains ont réagi en recourant à d'anciens modèles de croyance et de comportement. Le nationalisme en fait partie : mais un nationalisme de ressentiment alimenté par les frustrations et la peur. A bien des égards, l'Amérique de 2005 rappelle l'Europe du passé, et c'est pourquoi l'incompréhension entre les deux rives de l'Atlantique n'a jamais été aussi profonde. En même temps ce nationalisme aux racines ethniques et religieuses est une dévotion à un idéal abstrait, démocratique et moderne, plus révolutionnaire que conservateur, que les États-Unis se sont donné pour mission de propager. D'où une tension, virtuellement explosive, entre l'Amérique profonde et la nouvelle génération aux commandes à Washington. " Le Nouveau Nationalisme américain est indispensable pour comprendre l'Amérique actuelle, et sa politique étrangère erratique. [...] La thèse d'une Amérique lieu de conservation de modes de pensée européens archaïques est une contribution majeure. Il ne tombe dans aucun des panneaux de la pensée toute faite, que celle-ci soit de droite ou de gauche. C'est pourquoi l'effet ultime et paradoxal de ce livre, au sujet fondamentalement déprimant, est de remonter le moral. " (Emmanuel Todd)