The Film Archives's video: Why America Acts the Way It Does: The Special Character of Nationalism 2004

Read more: https://amzn.to/2ZYapkH America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism is a 2012 book by the British author and academic Anatol Lieven. A separate, earlier version was published in 2004. The book investigates the far-right in American politics, the radicalisation of the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement. The book also discusses the concept of American exceptionalism. In Foreign Affairs the book was described as 'intelligent and often provocative' whilst in The Guardian the book was praised by Martin Woollacott who wrote 'We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there in the 1990s - the mania about resisting outside influences, the narrow religious beliefs, the harking back to a golden age, the sense of being under threat from modernity, the readiness to use violent means. The roots of it went back centuries. But it took the attacks of 9/11 for us to realise how powerful was this burgeoning extremism....We are not, of course, talking here about Islam or about al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, but about America. It is Anatol Lieven's contention in this illuminating book that Bin Laden's assault on the United States stripped away many of the remaining restraints on the intolerant, irrational, and self-destructive side of American nationalism. Whether this nationalism is a greater problem than that represented by Islamic extremism is a moot point, but it is clear that the combination of the two could bring disaster on us all'.[2] In the London Review of Books the work was praised as 'fascinating and incisive...a compelling argument'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Right_or_Wrong Peter Paul Anatol Lieven was born in June 28, 1960 in London to Alexander Lieven and Veronica Eileen Mary (nee Monahan).[5] He is the brother of Elena Lieven, Dominic Lieven, Michael Lieven, and Nathalie Lieven QC, originally from the Lieven family of Livonia. He received a BA in history and a doctorate in political science from the University of Cambridge.[1][3] In the mid-1980s, Lieven a journalist with the Financial Times covering Pakistan and Afghanistan, while also covering India as a freelancer.[2][3][6] In the latter half of 1989, he covered the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Romania for the Times.[2] In 1990, he worked for The Times (London) covering the former USSR, during which time he covered the Chechen War (1994-1996).[2][3] In 1996, Lieven became a visiting senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace through 1997.[2] In 1998, he edited Strategic Comments at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, while also working for the Eastern Services of the BBC.[3] Lieven's areas of expertise and interest include: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Terrorism, Islamist movements, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and the former Soviet Union, US political culture and strategy.[3] He has spoken as an expert to the British Parliament and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United States Congress and United States Department of State, and the French Foreign Ministry, as well as universities and institutes.[1] In 2000 through 2005, Lieven was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security Policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2][3] Lieven served as chair of Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London. He remains a visiting professor there.[3] In 2006, Lieven became a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service at its campus in Qatar.[1][3] Since 2005, Lieven has been 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.[1][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Lieven