Ramses AMER

Ramses Amer – PhD and Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University in Sweden – is Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) in Sweden. His main areas of expertise are, on the one hand, regional collaboration, security issues and conflict resolution in East- and Southeast Asia and, on the other hand, the role of the United Nations in the international system. He has published extensively and has considerable experience from fieldwork in East- and Southeast Asia. Assoc. Prof. Amer has worked at the following universities in Sweden: Stockholm University, Umea University, University of Malmo, and Uppsala University. While working as Senior Research Adviser at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (September 1998 to July 2004), he was the Programme officer in charge of the collaboration with the following research organizations and Associations in Social Sciences in Asia and Africa: the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (SEACSN), the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), and the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA). Assoc. Prof. Amer was a Member of the Reference Group established by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the work on formulating a new Swedish strategy towards Asia, 1997-1998. Assoc. Prof. Amer's recent books include Conflict Management and Dispute Settlement in East Asia (Ashgate, 2011; co-edited with Zou Keyuan) and of International Relations in Southeast Asia: Between Bilateralism and Multilateralism (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010; co-edited with Narayanan Ganesan). He has contributed to international journals and books and written reports on regional collaboration and conflict management with a focus on ASEAN, on territorial issues including the South China Sea, on conflict resolution including the Cambodian Conflict, on various aspects of the relationship between China and Vietnam, on Asian perspectives of interventionism with a focus on China and ASEAN, on Vietnam with a focus on foreign relations and on human security, and on ethnic minorities and government policies towards the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. In addition, Assoc. Prof. Amer has also published on issues relating to the United Nations with a focus on interventionism and the use of force.