Munmun Majumdar

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Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA

Dr. (Mrs) Munmun Majumdar is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. Her area of specialization is South -East Asia. Her ongoing research focuses on the ASEAN and Conflict management in the South China Sea. At present she is a Visiting Fellow at IDSA. She holds a Ph.D from Centre for South Southeast and Southwest Pacific Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been a Visting faculty to the Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, Calcutta University, Kolkata, and Visiting Professor to the ASEAN Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She has been awarded the University Grants Commission (UGC) Research Awards (previously the award was known as Career Award and National Fellow) from 1999 to 2002 to pursue Post Doctoral research, UGC Major Project from 2003 to 2006 and has been an Associate at the Institute of Advance Study, Shimla. She has published three books and several articles in international Journals, such as Indonesian Quarterly, International Journal of South Asian Studies, Asia-Pacific Journal of Social Science and Asian Affairs.
Visiting Fellow
E-mail: munmunmaj[at]yahoo[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

The ASEAN Way of Conflict Management in the South China Sea

This article examines how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) conflict management process in the South China Sea (SCS) has been conducted and whether the ASEAN way can effectively manage the dispute, in which China is a prime and important actor. It argues that rising tensions in the South China Sea are a direct result of the changed balance of power in the region given the asymmetry between China and ASEAN members. China has taken advantage of ASEAN efforts to develop a code of conduct that is premised on the ASEAN way.