Monish Tourangbam

Dr. Monish Tourangbam is currently a Fellow at the Chintan Research Foundation. His focus area of work is the United States, covering U.S. foreign policy orientations, U.S. grand strategy, U.S. domestic politics, and U.S. regional and bilateral engagements. He also works on the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region, hegemony and counter-hegemony in international relations, shifts in global order and the South-Southeast Asian regional security dynamics. Earlier, he was Honorary Director at the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies and Associate Editor at India Quarterly. He was also Associate Editor of the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal. He was an Associate Professor at Amity University, Senior Assistant Professor at Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Associate Fellow at Observer Research Foundation. He was also a Visiting Faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and a Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Centre, Washington D.C. He has been an Indian delegate in a number of track 2 dialogues and delivers invited lectures in a number of institutes of national importance. He is a regular commentator on print and online media plus a number of strategic affairs platforms.