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RAJAN MENON
Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science
City College of New York/City University of New York
Department of Political Science
North Academic Center, Room 4/136
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Telephone: 212-650-5233
Fax: 212-650-5190
Email Address:
PERSONAL DATA:
Date of Birth: September 22nd 1953; US Citizen
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1979 M.A. International Relations Lehigh University 1975
B.A. Honors History, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University 1974
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, 2010—2011, 2012—present
Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University 1995-2012
Professor Lehigh University 1991-1995
Associate Professor Lehigh University 1987-91 Assistant Professor Lehigh University 1985-87
Vanderbilt University 1978-85 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Illinois 1976-77
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace, Columbia University, 2014—present
Global Ethics Fellow, Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs, 2014—present
Non Resident Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council, 2012—2015
Chairman, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University, 1987-88, 1990-93, 1997-2000; Interim Chairman, Spring 2007; Chairman, 2009—2010, 2011—2012
Associate, National Intelligence Council, 2011—present
Fellow, New America Foundation, 2005—2009
Board of Advisors, National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
Academic Advisor, Freedom House, 2000—2016
Academic Fellow, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2006-2007
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002—2003
Director of Eurasia Policy Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, 1999—2002
Academic Fellow and Senior Advisor, International Peace and Security Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1999 and 2000
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 1997—1998
Special Assistant for Arms Control and National Security, Office of Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, 1989-90
Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Consultant, A.B. Floyd Enterprises
Consultant, Science Applications International Corporation
Consultant, Centra Technology
Consultant, Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd.
Academic Advisory Board, Freedom House, 2001—present
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:
Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2014-16 (co PI: Jack Snyder, Columbia University)
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Grant, 2009
Smith Richardson Foundation, Research Grant, 2006-7
Fellowship, New America Foundation, 2005-06
Carnegie Scholar, 2002-2003
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (for NBR project)
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Conference Award, 2001-2002
Academic Fellow, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1999-2000, 2007
United States Institute of Peace Grant, 1998 (Co-Principal Investigator)
Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 1993--95; 1997--1998
National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Research Contract, 1993-94
Research Fellow, George Washington University, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, 1990—1
Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellowship, 1989-90
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Scholar, 1988-89
Institute for the Study of World Politics, Fellowship, 1988-89
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Summer Fellowship (awarded 1988; declined)
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Grant for Short-Term Research, 1988
Research Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, 1983
AWARDS FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH:
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Lehigh University, 2004
Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch Research Award, Lehigh University, 2003
Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 1985
AWARDS FOR SERVICE
President’s Award for Outstanding Service, City College of New York, 2014
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Council on Foreign Relations
Oxfam International
AREAS OF ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION:
International Relations Theory
International Security
American Foreign Policy
Ethical Dimensions of International Relations
Humanitarian Intervention
Globalization
Political Economy of International Relations
Comparative Politics
Soviet and Russian History
Regions:
Politics and Foreign Relations of Russia
International Relations of Northeast Asia
International Relations of Central Asia and the South Caucasus
Politics and Foreign Relations of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan)
Soviet Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics
LANGUAGES: Russian, Hindi, and Malayalam; French (basic)
COURSES TAUGHT:
International Relations
International Security (Graduate)
Globalization
Humanitarian Intervention
Ethical Dimensions of International Relations
The Rise and Decline of Empires
Global Citizenship (Faculty Seminar)
The Political Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr
Russian Foreign Policy
Comparative Politics
Comparative Foreign Policy
International Political Economy
The International Relations of Central Asia and the South Caucasus
The Political Economy of North-South Relations
Soviet-Third World Relations
Perestroika, Glasnost, and Soviet Foreign Policy
Alternative World Futures
Soviet Politics
Soviet Foreign Policy
The US and the USSR: From Cold War to Detente and Beyond
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Ukraine in Conflict: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (co-author: Eugene B. Rumer, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015)
The End of Alliances (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2008)
[Selected by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine as an “Outstanding Academic Title of 2007”; Reviewed in the New York Times and The Economist]
Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; contributor and co-editor with Robert Ebel)
Russia, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1999; contributor and principal coeditor with Yuri Fyodorov and Ghia Nodia)
Limits to Soviet Power (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989; co-edited with Daniel N. Nelson)
Soviet Power and the Third World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986)
Monographs:
New Players in the Mediterranean (Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund, 2010, co-authored with S. Enders Wimbush).
The China-Russia Relationship: What It Involves, Where It Is Headed, How It Matters for the United States (New York: Century Foundation, 2009)
Is the United States “Losing” Turkey? (Washington, DC: Hudson Institute, 2007; co-authored with S. Enders Wimbush).
Afghanistan after the Geneva Accords (Washington, D.C.: International Center for Development Policy, 1988)
Central Asia's Foreign Policy and Security Challenges: Implications for the United States (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 1995)
Treacherous Terrain: The Political and Security Dimensions of Energy Development in the Caspian Sea Zone (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 1998)
Op-Eds: Major Newspapers, Magazines, and Websites:
More than 100 pieces (700 words-3,800 words) in:
New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
Huffington Post
Newsweek
The Financial Times
The International Herald Tribune
US News and World Report
Asahi Evening News,
Christian Science Monitor
Boston Globe
Newsday
Chicago Tribune
CNN.com
washingtonpost.com
nationalinterest.org
foreignaffairs.com
foreignpolicy.com
americaninterest.com
Boston Review
realclearworld.com
World Politics Review
City Journal
Lobe Log
TomDispatch
Journal Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
“Ukraine Between Russia and the West: Buffer Zone or Flashpoint?” World Policy Journal, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (Spring 2017), 107-118.
“Why Humanitarian Intervention Still Isn’t a Global Norm,” Current History, Vol. 116, No. 786 (January 2017), 35-37.
“Asia’s New Balance of Power,” National Interest No. 146 (November/December 2016), 68-78
“The Specter of Relativism,” Politics, Religion, and Ideology Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (2016), 279-280.
“The Anatomy and Evolution of the India-Russia Relationship,” in David Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan, eds., Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
“The India Myth,” National Interest No. 134 (November/December 2014), pp. 46-57.
“Neomercantilism and the Competition for Energy in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea,” Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer, 2014), pp. 17-41.
“Asia’s Looming Power Shift” National Interest, No. 127 (September-October, 2013), pp. 20-32.
“The Responsibility to Protect: It’s Fatally Flawed,” American Interest, Vol. 8, No. 6 (July/August 2013), pp. 6-16.
“Why Moscow and Beijing Balk at ‘Interference,” Current History, Vol. 111, No. 748, (November 2012), pp. 310-316.
“When America Leaves: Asia After the Afghan War” The American Interest, Vol. VII. No. 5 (May/June, 2012), pp. 46-56.
“Culture Wars,” Survival, Vol. 53, No. 6 (December 2011-January 2012), pp. 185-196.
“Counterrevolution in Kiev,” (co-authored with Alexander J. Motyl), Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 6 (October/November 2011), pp. 137-148. Revised, condensed version: “Kriza nazuvaet’sia,” Kritika (Kiev), Vol. XV, Nos. 9-10 (September-October 2011), pp. 2-3
“The Two Ukraines,” German Marshall Fund of the United States, Policy Brief (July 2011).
“Breaking the State,” The National Interest, No. 113 (May/June 2011), pp. 29-36.
“Prisoner of the Caucasus: Russia’s Invisible Civil War,” (co-authored with Charles King), Foreign Affairs Vol. 89, No. 4 (July/August 2010), pp. 20-34.
“Pax Americana and the Rising Powers,” Current History, Vol. 108, No. 721 (November 2009), pp. 353-360.
“Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The ‘International Community’ and Mass Atrocities,” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 235-245; a longer version is listed below.
“Limits of Chinese-Russian Partnership,” Survival (June-July, 2009), pp. 99-130.
“Pious Words and Puny Deeds: The ‘International Community’ and Mass Atrocities,” in Uzi Rabi, ed., International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution since the Cold War,” (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
“Restrategize Policies on Nuclear Proliferation, Failing States, and Terrorism,” Asia Policy, (Special Roundtable on Advising the New President), Vol. 7 (January 2009), pp. 26-29.
“NATO, RIP,” The American Interest, Vol. IV, No. 2 (November/December 2008), pp. 52-59.
“Reorienting Japan,” Survival, Vol. 50, No. 3 (June/July 2008), pp. 177-90.
“Changing of the Guard,” The National Interest, No. 93 (January/February 2008), pp. 78-85.
“The US and Turkey: End of an Alliance?” (co-authored with S. Enders Wimbush) Survival, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 129-144.
“The Myth of Russian Resurgence,” (co-authored with Alexander J. Motyl) The American Interest, Vol. II, No. 4 (March/April 2007), pp. 96-101.
“Central Asia in the 21st Century,” in Boris Rumer, ed., Central Asia: The View from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), pp. 3-17.
“Chaos in the North Caucasus and Russia’s Future,” (co-authored with John B. Dunlop), Survival (Summer 2006), pp. 97-114
“Chaos in the Caucasus,” Hoover Digest, No. 3 (Summer 2006), pp. 122-131 [abridged revised version of above]
“An Axis of Democracy? The Uncertain Future of Israeli-Indian Relations,” (co-authored with Swati Pandey) The National Interest (Summer, 2005), pp. 29-36.
“What Went Wrong,” The Boston Review, Volume 29, No. 6 (December/January 2005), pp. 39-41.
“Greater Central Asia, Russia, and the West,” in Alexander J. Motyl, Blair A. Ruble, and Lilia Shevtsova. eds., Russia’s Reengagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), pp. 209-222
“An Old Solution for a New Problem?” Survival, Vol. 46 (Winter 2004), pp. 187-191.
“Russia’s Quagmire: On Ending the Standoff in Chechnya,” Boston Review, Vol. 29, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 2004, Double Issue), pp. 26-32.
“Leaders, Structural Conditions, and Russia’s Foreign Policy,” in Yitzhak Brudny, Jonathan Frankel, and Stefani Hoffman, eds. Restructuring Post-Communist Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 250-270.
“The Sick Man of Asia: Russia’s Endangered Far East,” The National Interest, Vol. 73, (Fall 2003), pp. 93-105
“The End of Alliances,” World Policy Journal, Vol. XX, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 1-20.
“The New Great Game in Central Asia,” Survival, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 187-204.
“The Balance of Power and US Interests in the Russian Far East,” (co-authored with Charles E. Ziegler) in Judith Thornton and Charles E. Ziegler, eds., The Russian Far East: A Region at Risk (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2002), pp. 35-58
“The Restless Region: The Brittle States of Central and South Asia,” in James Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose, eds., How Did this Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001), pp. 97-107
“Another Year of Living Dangerously?” [original title: “Why Indonesia Could Collapse and Why That Matters”] The National Interest, No. 65 (Fall 2001), pp. 100-115
“Structural Constraints on Russian Diplomacy,” ORBIS, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 579-596.
“Russia,” in Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia: Power and Purpose, 2001-2002 (Seattle Washington: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001), pp. 174-221.
“Energy, Development and Conflict in the Caspian Sea Region,” in Robert Ebel and Rajan Menon, eds., Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 1-19.
“Russia’s Ruinous Chechen War,” (co-authored with Graham E. Fuller) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 2 (March/April 2000), pp. 32-44
“The Balance of Power and US Foreign Policy Interests in the Russian Far East,” National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Analysis, Vol. 11, No. 5 (December 2000).
“Asia in the Twenty-First Century,” (co-authored with S. Enders Wimbush) The National Interest, No. 59 (Spring 2000), pp. 78-86
"The Limits of Neorealism: Understanding Security in Central Asia," Review of International Studies, Vol. 25 (1999), pp. 87-105. (co-authored with Hendrik Spruyt).
"State Formation, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia," in Barnett R. Rubin and Jack Snyder, eds., Post-Soviet Order: Conflict and State Building (New York: Routledge, 1998); co-authored with Hendrik Spruyt.
"After Empire: Russia and the Southern ‘Near Abroad,'" in Michael Mandelbaum, ed., The New Russian Foreign Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1998)
"The Strategic Convergence between Russia and China," Survival, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 101-125.
"Russo-Japanese Relations, Northeast Asian Security, and US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era," in Stephen Blank and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, eds., Imperial Decline: Russia's Changing Position in Asia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
"The Perils of Perestroika: The Life and Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev," The Harriman Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 1-14.
"Why Japan Will Re-Think Its Defense Strategy," (Retitled by editor as "Japan: The Once and Future Superpower"), The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Special Issue), Vol. 53, No. 1 (January-February, 1997), pp. 29-34.
"Japan-Russia Relations and North-east Asian Security," Survival, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 59-78
"In the Shadow of the Bear: Security in Post-Soviet Central Asia," International Security, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer 1995), pp. 149-181.
""Revitalizing the United States-Japanese Alliance," Pacific Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 183-194. Post-Mortem: The Causes and Consequences of the Soviet Collapse," The Harriman Review, Vol. 7, Nos. 10-12 (November 1994), pp. 1-10.
"Russia, America, and Northeast Asia after the Cold War," in George Ginsburgs, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, and Oles M. Smolansky, eds., Russia and America: From Rivalry to Reconciliation (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993).
"The Transformation of Central Asia: Implications for Regional and International Security," Survival, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 68-89. (co-authored with Henri J. Barkey).