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.