Anand Menon
Biography
Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London (KCL).
He is also the director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative at KCL. Funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council, the initiative aims to make the findings of social scientific research available and accessible to all non-academic audiences interested in Brexit, the Brexit process and its implications.
He was previously Professor of West European Politics & founding Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham.
Prior to that he was University Lecturer in European Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford.
He has held visiting positions at New York University, Columbia University and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, amongst other universities.
He is an associate fellow of Chatham House and Senior Associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the journal West European Politics.
Interviews
Anand Menon On The Changing Landscape of British Politics & The U.K.’s Place In The World. April x, 2026.
Articles (Selected)
Brexit and British Politics (with G. Evans) Cambridge, Polity Press, 2017, 149pp.
With Margaret Macmillan and Patrick Quinton Brown: Introduction: World Politics 100 years after the Paris Peace Conference, International Affairs, Issue 1, January 2019, pp. 1-5
With Erik Jones: Europe Between Dream and Reality, International Affairs, 95, 1, January 2019, pp. 161-180.
Uniting the United Kingdom: What Comes After Brexit, Foreign Affairs, July 2016.
With R. Minto and D. Wincott: Introduction: The UK and the European Union, The Political Quarterly, 87, pp. 174-178.
With J-P Salter: Britain’s influence in the EU, NIESR Review, 236, May 2016, pp. 7-14.
Littler England: The United Kingdom’s Retreat from Global Leadership, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2015.
With J Howorth: Wake Up, Europe! Global Affairs, 1,1, 2015, pp. 11-20.
With D Kelemen and J Slapin: The European Union: Wider and Deeper? Journal of European Public Policy, 21, 5, 2014, pp. 643-646
With D Kelemen and J Slapin: Wider and Deeper: Enlargement and Integration in the European Union, Journal of European Public Policy, 21, 5, 2014, pp. 664-680
European Defence Policy from Lisbon to Libya, Survival 53, 3,2011 pp. 75-90.
With Jennifer Welsh: Understanding NATO’s Sustainability: The Limits of Institutionalist Theory, Global Governance, 17, 2011, pp. 81-94
Education
PhD International Relations, University of Oxford
MPhil, University of Oxford
B.A. University of Oxford
Institutions
King’s College London
UK In A Changing Europe
University of Birmingham
Field
Political Science
Topics
U.K. Politics
Brexit
The politics and Institutions of the EU
Theories of European Integration
European Security
EU Foreign and Security Policies
Institutionalism
Security Institutions
NATO
British and French Foreign and Security Policies