Professor Erik Ringmar from Lund University, Sweden will be the speaker. Eric Ringmar teaches political science and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, USA. For 12 years Prof. Ringmar taught comparative politics at the London School of Economics and between 2007-2013 he lived and worked in China, for the last two years as professor of international relations in Shangai. His current academic interests are around comparative international systems and history of international relations. He is the author of 5 books and more than 50 academic articles. His books are published by Cambridge University Press, Routledge and Palgrave.