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Areas of Expertise
- Strategies to counter international terrorism
- Transitions to democracy, including Iran and
Iraq
- Russia, China, Europe, Latin America
- National security/intelligence issues
- U.S. president and foreign policy
- Conflict resolution/peace building
Biographical Highlights
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow
Constantine C Menges, Ph.D., passed away on July 11 from complications
of cancer. He was 64 years of age.
His foreign policy experience
included public service as Special Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs and at the CIA as a National Intelligence
Officer. He was a scholar, author, and a university professor.
His responsibilities in the
government included the design of several major successful foreign
policy strategies. For example, Menges devised strategies to counter
Soviet political warfare/indirect aggression and to encourage
transitions to democracy abroad.
From 1990 to 2000, Menges was a
professor at The George Washington University, where he founded and
directed the Program on Transitions to Democracy. His work on
democratic transitions included the post-communist states, Iraq/Iran,
and the Americas. He also began a project on U.S. relations with Russia
and China and the new Russia-China alignment, which he continued at
Hudson.
His professional work also
included experience in domestic policy issues, having served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Education and as Assistant Director for Civil
Rights in the former federal Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. Menges traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union,
Europe, and Latin America. In 1961, he helped individuals escape as the
Berlin Wall was being built. In 1963, he worked in Mississippi as a
volunteer for equal voting rights. In 1968 Menges was in Czechoslovakia
helping the non-violent civic resistance following the Soviet-led
invasion. He speaks French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
After receiving his B.A. from
Columbia College, Menges earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in
international relations, with emphasis on the Soviet Union and Germany.
Publications and Media
Exposure
A frequent contributor to national
and international media, Menges appeared on all the major networks as
well as a number of European and Latin American major media outlets
including the BBC. His articles appeared in publications such as
Commentary, National Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, and
The Washington Post. His books include: Spain: The Struggle for
Democracy (1979), Inside the National Security Council (1988), The
Future of Germany and the Atlantic Alliance (1991), Transitions from
Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (1994), Partnerships for Peace,
Democracy and Prosperity (1997), and The Marshall Plan From Those Who
Made It Succeed (1999). At the time of his death, he had just completed
the manuscript for a new book entitled: China, The Gathering Threat -
The Strategic challenge of China and Russia.
Articles &
Publications by Constantine C. Menges
- Mullah Mischief 07/14/2004
- Reagan’s Foreign Successes
06/16/2004
- Iranian Direct and
Indirect Efforts to Infiltrate Iraq 04/29/2004
- Map: Iranian Support for
Terrorists 04/29/2004
- Iran's Covert Actions in
Iraq 04/14/2004
- Iraq - The Covert Actions
of Iran Against the US - Today’s 9-11 04/06/2004
- US/Greater Middle East
Initiative for Democracy — Saudi/OPEC Counter Actions 03/31/2004
- Iraq-Indicators of
attempts by Iran to bring about a pro-Iranian Shi’a régime*
03/01/2004
- Iran and Al Qaeda – Links
and Indicators of Support 02/18/2004
- Iran and Castro: October
Surprises 01/28/2004
- Democracy in Iran the way
to Middle East Peace 10/27/2003
- North Korea—ending its
nuclear threat without war 07/28/2003
- Winning Peace in Iraq and
Iran 05/02/2003
- Brazil’s Lula da Silva,
Castro and China 12/10/2002
- Russia, Proliferation and
the War on Terrorism 07/26/2002
- China, Russia, Iran and
Our Next Move 02/10/2002
- Opportunities at the
Bush-Putin summit 11/13/2001
- Strategy against global
terror 09/26/2001
- Russia, China and What's
Really on the Table 08/03/2001
- The China-Russia Treaty:
Implications for the U.S 07/23/2001
- Preventing a military
alliance 06/18/2001
- China, Russia-Preventing a
Military Alliance 06/14/2001
- China: Myths vs. reality 04/26/2001
- China: Economic
Modernization, Liberalization, Democracy 05/24/2000
- China-U.S. Relations:
Avoiding An Asian Munich 03/05/2000
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