Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer chair of international relations at the City College of New York’s Colin Powell School, a senior research scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, and director of the grand strategy program at Defense Priorities.

Articles by Rajan Menon

A worker cuts steel at a factory in Huaibei in China’s eastern Anhui province.

Can the United States Really Decouple From China?

Analysis |

Jeffrey Kucik, Rajan Menon

January 11, 2022, 1:10 PM

U.S. President Joe Biden, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meets virtually with members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—Australia, India, and Japan—in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on March 12.

The Quad Is a Delusion

Argument |

June 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan from the Treaty Room in the White House in Washington, on April 14.

The Wisdom of Leaving Afghanistan

Argument |

April 15, 2021, 2:47 PM

As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden pays his respects to fallen service members on Memorial Day at Delaware Memorial Bridge Veteran’s Memorial Park in New Castle, Delaware, on May 25, 2020.

Biden Must Rethink the American Way of War

Argument |

January 25, 2021, 11:51 AM

Opposition supporters protest against disputed presidential elections results at Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 18.

Belarus’s Protests Aren’t Particularly Anti-Putin

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August 19, 2020, 4:32 PM

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