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Curriculum Vitæ - Erik Ringmar (林瑞谷)

personal details:


education:

  • Filosofie doktor, Dept of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. January 1997.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Dept of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA. Spring, 1993. (Committee: Alexander Wendt, James C. Scott, Walter Carlsnaes)
  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 1991-93. Dissertation work (supervisor: Alessandro Pizzorno).
  • Master of Philosophy, Dept of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA, autumn, 1989.
  • Master of Arts, Dept of International Relations, Yale University, New Haven, USA, autumn, 1988.
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Uppsala/ University of Stockholm, spring, 1985. With a concentration in political science and Japanese language.

academic jobs:

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Zhi Yuan Chair professor of International Relations, School of International Public Administration. Spring 2011 - present. Courses on “Theories of International Relations,” “Introduction to International Politics,” “Global Governance.”
  • Xinzhu Jiao Tong University, Taiwan, China. Professor, Institute of General Education and Institute of Social and Cultural Studies. Spring 2007 - Fall 2010. Convenor of courses on "International Relations and Organizations," "Advanced Topics in International Politics," "Global Political Economy," "Orientalism," "The State and Prosperity" and "Culture & Identities," "Free Speech on the Internet," and "Politics of Resistance."
  • Dept of Government, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, United Kingdom. Michaelmas term, 1995 - 2006. Senior lecturer with tenure. Convenor of MSc and BSc courses on political economy, the history of political institutions, democracy, power, nationalism and ethnic conflict resolution.
  • Dept of Government, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, United Kingdom. Michaelmas term, 1998 - 2005. Convenor Master's program in Comparative Politics with responsibility for student admissions.
  • LSE Summer School, London, UK, 1998 to 2006. Course proprietor ''Financial Institutions: History, Politics & Crises,'' and ''Cultures of Capitalism: East and West Compared.''
  • Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, London campus, Spring 2003. “Introduction to Political Economy.”
  • Visiting professor, University of Dalarna, Sweden, September 2002. “Global Political Economy.”
  • Visiting professor at the Dept of International Relations, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001/02.
  • Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden. January 1994 - September, 1995. Research fellow.
  • Editorial Assistant, Journal of Conflict Resolution. Yale University, USA. January 1987 - December 1990.
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept of Political Science, Yale University, USA. September 1989 - December 1990. Courses in international relations and political theory.

selected awards & grants:

  • National Science Council, Taiwan, China, research grant, 2007-2010.
  • Ministry of Education, Taiwan, China, Human Rights Education Award (for Chinese translation of A Blogger's Manifesto), November 2009.
  • National Jiao Tong University, Xinzhu, Taiwan, China. Distinguished Scholar Award, October 2007 - 2010.
  • MacArthur Foundation, Yale Dissertation Scholarship, 1988-89.
  • SAAB/ Sweden-America Foundation Scholarship, 1986-87.
  • Fulbright Foundation, Fulbright Scholarship, 1985-86.

monographs:

  1. Modernity, Boredom and War: Dreams of Empowerment and Agency, 1870-1930, with Jorg Kustermans, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014.
  2. Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012.
  3. A Blogger's Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet, London: Anthem Books, 2007. -- in Chinese translation, 2009 (traditional, simplified).
  4. The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe & East Asia: The Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation London: Routledge, 2005; paperback 2009. Also published in paperback as Why Europe Was First: Social Change and Economic Success in Europe and East Asia, 1500-2050, London: Anthem Books, 2007.
  5. Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human London: Anthem Books, 2005. In Korean translation as 자본주의 Seoul: Book & People Publishing Company, 2011.
  6. Identity, Interest & Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paperback edition, 2008.

edited volumes:

  1. Erik Ringmar & Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, eds, The State as Person. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming (contributions by Alexander Wendt, Iver Neumann, Jens Bartelson, among others).
  2. Erik Ringmar & Thomas Lindemann, eds., The International Politics of Recognition. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, August 2011 (contributions by Axel Honneth, Ned Lebow, Philippe Braud, Charles Doran, and others).

articles in SSCI & A&HCI journals:

  1. "Performing International Systems: Two East-Asian Alternatives to the Westphalian Order,” International Organization, 66:2, Spring, 2012.
  2. "'How to Fight Savage Tribes': The Global War on Terror in Historical Perspective," accepted for publication in Terrorism and Political Violence.
  3. “Modernity, Boredom and War: A Suggestive Essay," with Jorg Kustermans, Review of International Studies, 34:3, October 2011.
  4. "Malice in Wonderland: Dreams of the Orient and the Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China," Journal of World History, 22:2, 2011. pp. 273-297.
  5. "Inter-Textual Relations: The Quarrel over the War in Iraq as a Conflict between Narratives Types," Cooperation and Conflict, 41:4, 2006. pp. 403-21.
  6. "Liberal Barbarism and the Oriental Sublime: The European Destruction of the Emperor''s Summer Palace," Millennium, 34:3, 2006. pp. 917-33. In Chinese as壯美，常理，火燒圓明園, Cultural Studies Quarterly (Taiwan), March 2006.
  7. "Audience for a Giraffe: European Exceptionalism and the Quest for the Exotic," Journal of World History, 17:4, December, 2006. pp. 353-97.
  8. "The Recognition Game: Soviet Russia Against the West," Cooperation and Conflict, no 2, 2002. pp. 115-36.
  9. "Nationalism: The Idiocy of Intimacy," British Journal of Sociology, 1998.
  10. ''Reimagining Sweden: The Rhetorical Battle over EU Membership,'' Scandinavian Journal of History, 1998.
  11. "On the Ontological Status of the State," European Journal of International Relations, vol 2, no. 4, 1996.
  12. ''Relevance of International Law: A Hegelian Interpretation of a Peculiar 17th Century Preoccupation,'' Review of International Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 1995.
  13. ''Historical Writing and Rewriting: Gustav II Adolf, the French Revolution, and the Historians,'' Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 18, no. 4, 1993.

articles in edited volumes:

  1. "To Koutou or Not to Koutou?: European Diplomats at the Chinese Court," in Fredrik Bynander & Stefano Guzzini, eds. Essays in Honor of Walter Carlsnaes, (Sage, 2012)
  2. "Free Trade by Force: Civilization against Culture in the Great China Debate of 1857," in Jozef Batora & Monika Mokre, eds. Bridges, Borders, Bribes?: Cultural Policies as External Policies (Ashgate: 2011)
  3. "The International Politics of Recognition," in Erik Ringmar & Thomas Lindemann, eds., The International Politics of Recognition. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2011.
  4. "Metaphors of Social Order," in Politics, Language and Metaphor, edited by Terrell Carver & Jernej Pikalo (New York: Routledge, 2008)
  5. "Empowerment among Nations: A Sociological Perspective," in Power in World Politics, edited by Felix Berenskoetter & M. J. Williams (London/New York: Routledge, 2007)
  6. "The Power of Metaphor: Consent, Dissent & Revolution," in Discourse, Identity and Politics in Europe, edited by Richard C. M. Mole (London: Palgrave, 2007) pp. 111-36.
  7. "The Institutionalization of Modernity: Shocks and Crises in Germany and Sweden," in Culture and Crisis: The Case of Germany and Sweden, edited by Lars Trägårdh and Nina Witozek (New York: Berghanh, 2002) pp. 24-42.
  8. ''Alexander Wendt: A Social Scientist Struggling with History,'' in The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making, edited by Iver B. Neumann & Ole Wæver (London: Routledge, 1997) -- in Chinese translation, 2011.
  9. ''Two Case Studies: the United States Leaves the ILO and Unesco,'' (with Jens Bartelson), in The United Nations at Forty: International Cooperation in Crisis, edited by Bo Huldt and Maria Falk (Stockholm: Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 1985)

other academic articles

  1. “Thinking Men and Ideals Betrayed: Bentham, Coleridge and British Imperialism in China in the Nineteenth Century," Nineteenth Century Studies, vol 25, no. 1, 2012.
  2. "Recognition," Princeton Encyclopedia of Self-Determination (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010)
  3. "Performing International Relations," Center for Policy Research and International Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, working paper, 125/10, April, 2010.
  4. "Francis Lieber, Terrorism, and the American Way of War," Perspectives on Terrorism, vol. 3, no. 4, 2009.
  5. "'Wie man wilde Stämme bekämpft': Der globale Krieg gegen den Terror in historischer Perspektive," Osnabrücker Jahrbuch Frieden und Wissenschaft (Osnabrueck, V&R Press, 2009)
  6. "Liberal Barbarism and Imperial Transgression," Naked Punch, October, 2006.
  7. "Critical Thinking as Institutionalised Practice: East and West Compared," in Manusya, (Thailand) no. 1-2, 2001.
  8. "Why Europe was First," Review of Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Journal of Social Science (Thailand), 2001. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
  9. “The Social Construction of Nationalism,'' Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, (Sweden), vol. 102, no. 1, 1999. Review of Patrik Hall, The Social Construction of Nationalism (Lund: Lund University Press, 1998)
  10. ''On the Causes of War,'' Cooperation & Conflict, vol. 32, no. 2, 1997. Review of Hidemi Suganami,The Causes of War (Oxford: OUP, 1996)
  11. ''Russia: Territory and Identity Crises,'' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 2, no. 3, 1996. Review of Contested Territory: Border Disputes at the Edge of the Former Soviet Empire, edited by Toumas Forsberg (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995) and Peacekeeping and the Role of Russia in Eurasia, edited by Lena Jonsson and Clive Archer (Boulder: Westview, 1996)
  12. The International Politics of Recognition: Soviet Russia Against the West, 1917-1939, Stockholm: Swedish Institute of International Affairs, research report, no. 24, 1996.

articles in the pipeline:

  1. "The Wonders of Technology: The Armstrong Guns, the Chinese, and the Superiority of European Civilization"

selected journalism


selected conferences and lectures (last five years)

  • ''Surviving Capitalism,'' talk at Dept of Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Sept 15, 2011; Centre for Well-being in Development, University of Bath, 28 October, 2005.
  • "The Intertextuality of War: The Case of the Iraq War," talk at Sciences-Po, France, June 11, 2009; U of Antwerp, Belgium, Aug 30, 2010.
  • "Performing International Relations: Ontology, Recognition, Performativity," IDAS Conference, Chengchi University, Taipei, June 1, 2010; Dept of Public Administration, U of Macau, June 4, 2010; International Sociological Association, World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July. 12, 2010; Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, Oct 21, 2010.
  • "The Biggest Toy for the Biggest Boy: Yuanmingyuan and Disneyland Compared," talk at Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, May 26, 2010.
  • "The 'Chinese Election' of 1857: Democracy and Barbarism," talk at Hong Kong City University, April 22, 2010.
  • "Modernity, Boredom and War," talk at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, April 21, 2010.
  • "The Wonders of Science: Demonstrating the Superiority of European Civilization to the Chinese, 1793 and 1860," talk at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 24, 2010; Chinese University, Hong Kong, April 20, 2010; Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, April 21, 2010.
  • "The Governance of Globalization: East Asian Solutions to the Problems of Westphalia," talk at Sciences-Po, France, June 9, 2009; University of Antwerp, Belgium, June 10, 2009; University of Tampere, Finland, August 13, 2009; USM, Penang, Malaysia, January 28, 2010.
  • "How to Fight Savage Tribes," talk at Sciences-Po, France, June 9, 2009; University of Tampere, Finland, August 14, 2009.
  • "The Duality of Wonder and the European Attempt to Understand the World: The Case of the Palace of the Emperor of China," conference at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, on "The Unthinkable: Thinking Beyond the Limits of Culture." 13-14 December, 2008.
  • "The Sublime, the Commonsensical, and the Destruction of the Emperor''s Summer Palace," talk at Center for Social and Cultural Studies, NCTU, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 26, 2005; conference paper at "Between Fear and Wonder: International Politics, Representation and the Sublime," Millennium, London School of Economics and Political Science, 29-30 October, 2005.
  • "The Empowerment of Nations: A Sociological View,'' Historical Sociology in International Relations Workshop, Goldsmith College, London. 23 September, 2005.
  • "Metaphors of Social Order in Europe, China & Japan,'' talk presented at the Conference of East-West Philosophy, Nanjing University, 7 September 2004; and ECPR Joint Session, Granada, 14-19 April, 2005.

professional activities

  • Reviewer for European Science Foundation, Anthem Press, Cambridge University Press, Polity Press, University College Dublin Press; and British Journal of Sociology, Cooperation & Conflict, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of Development and International Relations, Journal of Politics, Millennium, Nations & Nationalism, Pakistan Journal of International Relations, Political Studies, Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Sociological Theory.
  • Faculty Fellow,Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, 2005 - present.
  • Member of the International Advisory Board, Centre for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2003-present.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journalPerspectives: The Review of International Affairs, 2009-present.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the book series on Media and Communication Studies at Anthem Press, London, UK. 2011-present.
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Pakistan Journal of International Relations, 2008-present.Examiner, PhD examinations: 1) Dept of Political Science, U of Tampere, August, 2009; 2) Dept of Government, LSE, February 3, 2006; 3) Dept of Political Science, University of Lund, June 8, 1998.