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, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council 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

Security

How to End the War in Syria

| 04.18.13

The West will have to abandon its insistence that Assad must go, as it isn't working.

Global Governance

India's Tough Road to the Security Council

| 04.04.13

New Delhi has a strong case, but will the world listen?

Security

The Measured Madness of North Korea

| 03.28.13

The DPRK isn't crazy—its histrionics get it what it wants. What can Washington do?

Society

Tunisia and the Clash Within Civilizations

| 02.20.13

The killing of an opposition leader highlights thunderous struggles within the Arab world. 

Global Governance

Britain's History of Hedging on Europe

| 01.25.13

PM Cameron's skeptical speech will be poorly received in Brussels, but his sentiments are hardly new.

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