
L.H.M. Ling (PhD, MIT) is an Associate Professor in the
Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in New York
City. Ling’s research interests include
democracy in international relations, critical security studies, transcultural
politics and postcolonial discourses (race/gender/class/culture), modalities of
transnationalism, ethnographies of knowledge production and international
development practice, and emerging regional economies. Her geocultural area of interest centers on
East, Southeast, and South 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 Transforming World Politics: From Empire to
Multiple Worlds (London:
Routledge, 2009), 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, among others, as well as various anthologies.