Monish Tourangbam

    Dr. Monish Tourangbam is a New Delhi based Strategic Analyst and the Honorary Director of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies. He is a regular commentator on International Affairs and Indian Foreign Policy.

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam  The idea of a “New World Order” often rests on the assumption that world politics can somehow be infused with more predictability, rules and fairness and yet this assumption can be highly misleading, and many times perilous.…

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued a startling directive ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing. The decision followed his allegations that several nuclear powers,  specifically Russia, China, North Korea, and Pakistan were conducting secret underground…

    By Monish Tourangbam With power comes a confident stride to shape the international system in its own image, to spearhead global and regional institutions that would proactively build the security and economic architectures of governance.  However, with power also comes an anxiety of…

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam Last month, responding to a question during a meeting with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Donald Trump put forward a new timeline for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal saying, “I’m going to make a new…

    By Monish Tourangbam and Arushi Singh  Lately, Pyongyang and Seoul have been engaged in a Cold War style bizarre “game of chicken”. If North Korea has been hitting its Southern neighbor with trash-filled balloons, carrying manure, cigarette butts and waste batteries, the latter…