{{Short description|Swedish professor of political science}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Erik Ringmar |image = Erik Ringmar |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1960|12|10}} |birth_place = Luleå, Sweden |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = Swedish |nationality = |ethnicity = |fields = International Relations<br/>International History<br/>Political Science |workplaces = Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey |alma_mater = Yale University<br/>Uppsala University |doctoral_advisor = Alexander Wendt<br/> Alessandro Pizzorno <br/> James C. Scott |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Recognition theory, global IR theory, academic freedom |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = Fulbright scholarship |religion = |signature = <!-- (filename only) --> |footnotes = }}
'''Erik Ringmar''' is a retired professor of political science.
==Background== {{BLP sources section|date=December 2017}} Ringmar graduated with a PhD from the Department of Political Science, Yale University, in 1993.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20240919002954/http://ringmar.net/</ref> 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.<ref>Academia.edu, "[https://lu.academia.edu/ErikRingmar Erik Ringmar]"</ref> In addition, Ringmar has published journalistic pieces in Huffington Post, Times Higher Education Supplement and Dagens Nyheter.<ref>Erik Ringmar,"[https://lu.academia.edu/ErikRingmar ”Studier i kinesiska språket ofta slöseri med resurser”]" Dagens Nyheter, July 12, 2013.</ref>
In the summer of 2019 he gave a TEDx talk entitled, "What Is a Non-Western IR Theory?"<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/q6uwExc7eu8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200207094437/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6uwExc7eu8 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6uwExc7eu8| title = What is a non-Western IR theory? {{!}} Erik Ringmar {{!}} TEDxIbnHaldunUniversity | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://ringmar.net/index.php/my-cancer-diary/ |title = Putting it all behind me|date = 23 March 2013}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *Ringmar, Erik. 2023. ''Moving bodies : embodied minds and the world that we made''. Cambridge University Press. * {{cite book | last = Ringmar | first = Erik | title = History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective | url = https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/228 | format = Open Access | year = 2019 | publisher = Open Book Publishers | location = Cambridge | doi = 10.11647/OBP.0074 | isbn = 978-1-78374-022-2 | doi-access = free }} *Ringmar, E. 2019. ''Befria universiteten!: om akademisk frihet och statlig styrning''. Timbro förlag. ISBN 9177031709 * {{cite book | last = Ringmar | first = Erik | title = Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China | url = https://www.academia.edu/attachments/41058464/download_file?st=MTQ4MzQ5ODcwMSw4MS44OC4xMC4yMzYsNDU3NTAw&s=profile | year = 2013 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = New York }} * {{cite book | last = Ringmar | first = Erik | title = Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War | orig-year = 1996 | url = | year = 2008 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge }}
* {{cite book | last = Ringmar | first = Erik | title = The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation | orig-year = 2005 | url = https://www.academia.edu/attachments/52716515/download_file?st=MTU5MTU3NjM3MiwxNzguMjMzLjIzNS4xOTQsNDU3NTAw&s=profile | year = 2009 | publisher = Routledge | location = London }} * {{cite book | last = Ringmar | first = Erik | title = Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human | url = | year = 2005 | publisher = Anthem Press | location = London }}
==References== <references/>
==Citations== *[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2zrQ43cAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
==External links== *[http://ringmar.net/] * Erik Ringmar, [https://ibnhaldun.academia.edu/ErikRingmar Downloadable papers at Academia.edu]. * Erik Ringmar, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6uwExc7eu8 What Is a Non-Western IR Theory?]" TEDx Talk, July 18, 2019.
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