Dr. Monish Tourangbam

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr. Monish Tourangbam is Non-Resident Fellow at the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies (KIIPS). He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi.  Formerly, he was an Associate Professor at the Amity Institute of International Studies, Amity University, Noida and Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. He was also an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi and Associate Editor of the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal of the Association of Indian Diplomats. He was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and a SAV Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center, Washington D.C. He has been part of several Track II Dialogues. He was an International Observer of the Russian Presidential Election in 2018 and an Indian delegate at a BRICS Exchange Programme (2017), Beijing. He delivers lectures on Diplomacy at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi and is an Editorial Board Member of the GLC-SPIL International Law Journal. He has written for the Institute of South Asian Studies, Stimson Center, India’s World Magazine, Pacific Forum, The Diplomat, Institute of Security and Development Policy, Asian Confluence, The Print, Financial Express, Indiatimes and many others. He holds an M.Phil and Ph.D in American Studies from the School of International Studies, JNU.