Rajan Menon

{{Short description|Political scientist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Rajan Menon''' (born September 22, 1953) is a political scientist. Currently, Menon is the emeritus Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at the City College of New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty and Staff Profiles|url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/rajan-menon|website=CCNY.CUNY.edu|accessdate=15 July 2023}}</ref> He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rajan Menon |url=https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/rajan-menon |website=Columbia SIPA |publisher=The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rajan Menon |url=https://www.siwps.org/people/rajan-menon/ |website=Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref>

==Books== *''Soviet power and the Third World'' Yale University Press, 1986. *''Limits to Soviet power,'' Lexington Books, 1989. *''Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia : the 21st century security environment,'' M.E. Sharpe, 1999. *''Energy and conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus,'' Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. *''The end of alliances'' Oxford University Press, 2007.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Menon |first=Rajan |date=2003 |title=The End of Alliances |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40209855 |journal=World Policy Journal |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=1–20 |issn=0740-2775}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ikenberry |first=G. John |date=2007 |title=Review of The End of Alliances |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20032358 |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=86 |issue=3 |pages=139–140 |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> *''Conflict in Ukraine; The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order'' with Eugene B. Rumer, The MIT Press, 2015. *''The conceit of humanitarian intervention,'' Oxford University Press, 2016.<ref name="LeithartConceit">{{cite journal|last1=Leithart|first1=Peter|title=Conceit of Humanitarianism|journal=First Things|date=December 1, 2015|url=http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2015/12/conceit-of-humanitarianism|accessdate=June 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name="IkenberryConceit">{{cite journal|last1=Ikenberry|first1=John|title=The conceit of humanitarian intervention|journal=Foreign Affairs|date=March 2016|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2016-02-16/conceit-humanitarian-intervention|accessdate=June 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name="DeeksPolitics">{{cite journal|last1=Deeks|first1=Ashley|title=Politics by Other Means|journal=The New Rambler|date=April 27, 2016|url=http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/international-relations/politics-by-other-means|accessdate=June 2, 2016}}</ref>

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