Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is an Anne and Bernard Spitzer professor of international relations at the City College of New York. He is also a senior research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Stories by Rajan Menon

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

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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

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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

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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

A German soldier holds a machine gun during military exercises near Bergen, Germany, on Oct. 14, 2016.

The Sorry State of Germany’s Armed Forces

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June 18, 2020, 9:19 AM

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