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Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Colin Powell School, City College of New York/City University of New York, Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, and a Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

U.S. Politics is Failing Children

Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?

Class & Inequality

We're Not All In It Together

The deep, growing divisions in U.S. society have an outsize effect in determining who suffers from this pandemic—as well as how the government responds.

Rajan Menon, Jeffrey Kucik

War & Security

The President and the Blob

The barrage of attacks that followed Trump’s decision to reduce the U.S. military presence in Syria obscures the decades-long bankruptcy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Andrew J. Bacevich, Rajan Menon

War & Security

The Path Back From Hell

U.S. foreign policy disasters fueled our current political crisis. But those who want a new approach must do more than point out past blunders.

War & Security

What Did Trump's Strike Against Syria Actually Accomplish?

To understand Russian and U.S. strategies, you have to read between the lines.

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Politics

The Putin Problem

The West thinks of Putin as an aberration among recent Russian rulers, but he stands in line with them. Understanding that continuity is vital to preventing the U.S.–Russian relationship from deteriorating further.

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Politics

What Is Putin's Endgame?

Russiagate is causing more stress than glee for Putin, who always thought Hillary would win.

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Boston Review Books

Conflict in Ukraine

The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order

Rajan Menon, Eugene Rumer

Forum Response

Something from Nothing — Forum Response

Afghanistan and Pakistan cannot be separated.

Politics, War & Security

What Went Wrong

Why the U.S. must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

Global Justice, Politics

Russia's Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

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