Author: Anatol Lieven / Content Type: Policy Brief / Publishing Institution: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / Political Geography: Asia

Author:: Anatol Lieven, Fiona Hill, and Thomas de Waal
Publication Date:: 03-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Abstract:: The ongoing conflict in and around Chechnya is helping to feed the wider international jihadi movement, and is endangering the West as well as Russia. The next “soft target” of North Caucasian terrorism could be a Western one. Mutual recriminations over the conflict have badly damaged relations between Russia and the West. While most of the blame for this lies with Russian policies, the Western approach to the issue has often been unhelpful and irresponsible. Denunciations of Russian behavior have not been matched by a real understanding of the Chechen conflict or a real commitment to help.
Topic:: Diplomacy and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Caucasus

Author:: Anatol Lieven
Publication Date:: 05-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Abstract:: The war on terrorism, which the United States has now been compelled to undertake, will not greatly resemble traditional war. It will, however, have certain important similarities to the Cold War, or at least to those parts of that struggle which took place in what used to be called the third world. Like the struggle against communism, this will be a long, multifaceted struggle in which the terrorist groups must be combated, but so too must be the factors that impel much larger populations to give those groups support and shelter. As in the Cold War, U.S. military action will be only one element of U.S. strategy, and usually not the most important. As then, a central danger is that anti-Western forces will succeed in carrying out revolutions in important states, seizing control and turning them into more bases for anti- Western actions. It is therefore important that the United States plot its strategy with the Cold War's successes and failures clearly in mind.
Topic:: Cold War, Diplomacy, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

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