Erik Ringmar is a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at İbn Haldun Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey.

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.

[5] In addition, Ringmar has published articles on metaphor, the problems of historiography, international law, social theory and phenomenology.

His coming book, to be published by Cambridge University Press, is a phenomenological study of movement and international politics.

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