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Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation and President of the Euro-Asia political studies of the National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University.

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“The US should express regret for lives lost in Pakistan air strike”

by Rajan Menon

3 February 2006

After bombing a Pakistani village near the Afghan border, the Bush Administration has presented no excuses to Pakistan. The purpose of the failed attack was Al Qaeda’s second in command, Aymin al-Zawahiri. Some of his men were hit, though, as well as a dozen Pakistani villagers, including (…)

“Russia’s thuggery backfires”

by Oles M. Smolansky, Rajan Menon

2 February 2006

Russia and Ukraine put an end to their controversies regarding natural gas pricing. Ukraine will pay more, but less than what Russia had demanded at the beginning. That is the good news. The bad news is that the West did not take sides in the outcome. Gazprom had requested to increase gas (…)