Book description
DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012
2011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons,
unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin
Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan
to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further
than the simple image of a failed state so often portrayed in the
media, and to see instead a country of immense complexity and importance.
Lieven's profound and sophisticated analysis paves the way for
clearer understanding of this remarkable and highly contradictory country.
Anatol Lieven is Professor of International Relations and Terrorism
Studies at King's College, London and a senior fellow of the New America
Foundation in Washington DC. He was previously a journalist, who
reported from South Asia, the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe for
The Times
(London) and other publications. His books include
Chechnya:
Tombstone of Russian Power
(1998);
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
(2004); and
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World
(with John Hulsman) (2006).
