Erik Ringmar

Erik Ringmar is a retired professor of political science.

Erik Ringmar
Born	(1960-12-10)December 10, 1960 Luleå, Sweden
Citizenship	Swedish
Alma mater	Yale University Uppsala University
Known for	Recognition theory, global IR theory, academic freedom
Awards	Fulbright scholarship
Scientific career
Fields	International Relations International History Political Science
Institutions	Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey
Doctoral advisor	Alexander Wendt Alessandro Pizzorno James C. Scott

Background

Ringmar graduated with a PhD from the Department of Political Science, Yale University, in 1993.^[1] Between 1995 and 2007 he was senior lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, and between 2007 and 2013 he worked as a professor of political science in China, the last two years as Zhi Yuan Chair Professor of International Relations at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PRC. Between 2013 and 2019 he worked in the department of political science at Lund University, Sweden and then at Ibn Haldun University. Ringmar is a Fulbright Scholar.

Research

Ringmar has published articles on metaphor, the problems of historiography, international law, social theory and phenomenology. His most recent book, published by Cambridge University Press, is a phenomenological study of movement and international politics. Ringmar's academic writings have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Slovak and German.^[2] In addition, Ringmar has published journalistic pieces in Huffington Post, Times Higher Education Supplement and Dagens Nyheter.^[3]

In the summer of 2019 he gave a TEDx talk entitled, "What Is a Non-Western IR Theory?"^[4]

Personal

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.^[5]

Bibliography

• Ringmar, Erik. 2023. Moving bodies : embodied minds and the world that we made. Cambridge University Press.
• Ringmar, Erik (2019). History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective (Open Access). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/OBP.0074. ISBN 978-1-78374-022-2.
• Ringmar, E. 2019. Befria universiteten!: om akademisk frihet och statlig styrning. Timbro förlag. ISBN 9177031709
• Ringmar, Erik (2013). Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ringmar, Erik (2008) [1996]. Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Ringmar, Erik (2009) [2005]. The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation. London: Routledge.
• Ringmar, Erik (2005). Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human. London: Anthem Press.