Erik Ringmar

Erik Ringmar is a retired professor of political science.

Background

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 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. In addition, Ringmar has published journalistic pieces in Huffington Post, Times Higher Education Supplement and Dagens Nyheter.

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

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.