Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York/City University of New York and the author, most recently, of The End of Alliances (Oxford University Press, 2007).


Essays

Society

Breaking the State

| 04.19.11

One fact is certain: foreign interventions end badly. Think the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan. Libya will be no different.

Economics

An Axis of Democracy?

| 06.01.06

History kept India and Israel apart. But times have changed. Will strategic necessity keep them together?

Politics

The Sick Man of Asia

| 09.01.03

Russia's reversal of fortunes in its resource-rich Far East will complicate the Asian equation for the United States.

Economics

Another Year of Living Dangerously?

| 09.01.01

Indonesia's crisis could cause the strategic upending of Southeast Asia. American policymakers may need to act quickly and wisely to prevent a security nightmare.

Economics

Asia in the 21st Century

| 03.01.00

Great changes are under way and when the dust settles, the Asia we knew will have ceased to exist.

Reviews

The Changing of the Guard

| 01.02.08

Rajan Menon evaluates the latest works on the future of East Asia and its impact on the world. Is Pax Americana in decline, and are we on the verge of a Pax Sinica?

Commentary

Global Governance

The Worst Is Yet to Come in Libya

| 09.23.11

Ousting Qaddafi was the easy part. A look at the long, hard road ahead.

Security

Why America Lost in Libya

| 08.31.11

Another nation in shambles. Thousands dead. Over a billion spent. And not a single U.S. interest served.

Security

Qaddafi Wins the War

| 07.07.11

The score is one for the wily colonel, zero for the world's most powerful alliance.

Global Governance

No Plan B for Libya

| 04.07.11

Nothing will change without war escalation—and that's a really bad idea.

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