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

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

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

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

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.

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

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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May 25, 2012