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Rajan Menon

Capsule Review
May/June
2007
The End of Alliances
G. John Ikenberry
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2000
Russia and the West: The 21st Century Security Environment (Eurasia in the 21st Century, Vol. I); Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment (Eurasia in the 21st Century, Vol. II); Russia and East Asia: The 21st Century
Sarah E. Mendelson
Essay
Mar/Apr
2000
Russia's Ruinous Chechen Warpremium content icon
Rajan Menon and Graham E. Fuller

The Russian Federation is unraveling, and its war against Chechnya shows why. Moscow blames Islamist terrorists for the trouble there. But in doing so, it ignores Russia's deeper afflictions. Russia has forced disparate ethnic groups to live together for decades but has proven inept at governing its wobbly empire. Now the fighting in Chechnya is leading dissatisfied nationalities to rethink their options -- and their dependence on Russia. Chechnya was the first to rebel. It will not be the last.
Capsule Review
Fall
1986
Soviet Power and the Third World
William G. Hyland
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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