This feeling is extremely widespread in Western Europe, ... and is one reason why there are at heart considerable doubts about just how these countries are going to be integrated. It's obviously a very bad thing....
"Peter Paul Anatol Lieven" is a British author, Orwell Prize-winning journalist, and policy analyst. He is a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of Department of War Studies, KCL/International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London.
Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times covering Central Europe, with The Times (London) covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia (including the First Chechen War), and wrote from India as a freelancer. He has also served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC. He received a B.A. in history and a doctorate in political science from Jesus College, Cambridge.
More Anatol Lieven on Wikipedia.This picture is a tremendously important part of the self-image of George W. Bush, of Dick Cheney (from Wyoming, another frontier state) and indeed of their administration as a whole, and it has shaped that administration's aggressiveness in international affairs.
If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government--has so much difficulty publishing, it's a sign of how extremely limited and ethically rotten the media debate is in this country.
The last of the Eisenhower Republicans.
A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan. But after Iraq, no one thinks they could invade and occupy Iran.
Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power.
I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would have written a review in support of my book.
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