--- title: Rajan Menon | TIME description: Rajan Menon is a professor of international relations at the City College of New York, a senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the author of The End of Alliances. canonical: https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rajan Menon ## Rajan Menon Rajan Menon is a professor of international relations at the City College of New York, a senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the author of [The End of Alliances](https://www.amazon.com/End-Alliances-Rajan-Menon/dp/0195189272). ## Rajan Menon *  Apr 4, 2026 ### [Will the Strait of Hormuz Sink NATO?](https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/will-the-strait-of-hormuz-sink-nato-/) “The Iran war turned what was already the most turbulent period in transatlantic relations into a fu... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 13, 2023 ### [Why NATO's Growing Interest in Asia Is a Mistake](https://time.com/6294499/nato-summit-vilnius-asia/) A newfound focus on China's growing power in the Asia-Pacific could distract NATO from the war in Uk... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"\_\_typename":"Seo","meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection","edges":\[\]},"twitter\_card":null} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/","name":"Rajan Menon"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/"},"name":"Rajan Menon","jobTitle":"","description":"Rajan Menon is a professor of international relations at the City College of New York, a senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the author of The End of Alliances.","url":"https://time.com/author/rajan-menon/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```