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Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the director of the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities, Spitzer Professor Emeritus at the Powell School of City College of New York, and a senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies. He is coauthor, with Eugene Rumer, of Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order.

Articles

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

Rajan Menon

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

Rajan Menon
Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
Rajan Menon
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Rajan Menon, Eugene Rumer

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

Rajan Menon
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

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

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.

Rajan Menon

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

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Western leaders think of Putin as an aberration. They are wrong.

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

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

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Forums

On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

Forum Responses

Menon responds to his critics.
Rajan Menon
Boston Review has again made a signal contribution to the debate on a pressing issue—this time with its symposium, anchored by the intrepid Nir Rosen’s thoughtful essay on the war in Afghanistan....
Rajan Menon

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