
L.H.M. Ling (Ph.D., MIT) is an Associate Professor of International Affairs. Her research interests include critical security studies, transcultural politics and postcolonial discourses, modalities of transnationalism, ethnographies of knowledge production and international development practice, and emerging regional economies. Her geocultural area of interest centers on East Asia and its relations with the West. Her books include
Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and
Seductions of Empire: Complicity, Desire, and Insecurity in Contemporary World Politics (forthcoming), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou (York University). Ling's publications have appeared in
International Feminist Journal of Politics,
International Studies Quarterly,
International Studies Review,
Journal of Peace Research,
Millennium,
positions: east asia cultures critique,
Review of International Political Economy,
Review of Politics, as well as various edited volumes.
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