Erik Ringmar
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| Born |
December 10, 1960 Luleå, Sweden |
| Residence | Sweden |
| Citizenship | Swedish |
| Fields |
International Relations International History Political Science |
| Institutions | Lund University, Sweden |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Uppsala University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Alexander Wendt Alessandro Pizzorno James C. Scott |
| Notable awards | Fulbright scholarship |
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Website www.ringmar.net |
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Erik Ringmar teaches political science at Lund University, Sweden.
Ringmar graduated with a PhD from the Department of Political Science, Yale University, in 1993. Between 1995 and 2007 he was senior lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, and between 2007-13 he worked as professor of political science in China, the last two years as Zhi Yuan Chair Professor of International Relations at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PRC. Ringmar is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, and a Fulbright Scholar. He joined Lund University in January 2014.
Ringmar is married to Diane Pranzo and together they have four daughters. In the summer of 2008 he underwent successful cancer surgery, an experience that he chronicled online.
Ringmar's writings cover international relations theory, history, and cultural and economic sociology. His first book, Identity, Interest and Action, focuses on the concept of recognition and discusses the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War as a matter of the creation of a Swedish identity. The Mechanics of Modernity discusses the origin of modern societies as a consequence of the interaction between institutions that allow reflection, entrepreneurship and the resolution of conflicts, and compares the development of Europe and East Asia. Surviving Capitalism, addresses the pathologies of capitalist development and the need for protection of social relationships and values. His most recent book, Liberal Barbarism, concerns European imperialism in China in the 19th century and the destruction of Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace of the Chinese emperor. In addition, Ringmar has published articles on metaphor, the problems of historiography, international law, narrative theory and the ontology of international politics. His coming book, to be published by Cambridge University Press, is a comparative study of various international systems.
Ringmar's academic writings have been translated into Chinese, Korean and German. In addition, Ringmar has published journalistic pieces in Huffington Post, Times Higher Education Supplement and Dagens Nyheter.
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