Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict & Development Research

swedish network of peace, conflict and development research

Associate Prof. Ramses Amer
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CAPS)

Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

E-mail: ramsesamer@gmail.com

pdf-files: Curriculum vitae | List of publications

Research interest (for more details see CV PDF-file)

Ongoing Research

Research on the use of force in international relations (attention on the United Nations reactions to foreign military interventions, the intervention debate and on legal aspects of the use of force).
The research theme: “Asian Perspectives and Policies on Interventionism – Continuity and Change” (attention on the degree of continuity and change in the views and policies of China and the members ASEAN on various forms of interventionism).
The Research Project: “Regional Co-operation and Conflict Resolution in Southeast Asia and the Wider Pacific Asia”, initiated 1997 (attention on territorial disputes, conflict management and the development of regional co-operation through ASEAN and the ARF).
The Research Project: “The South China Sea: Conflict situation and possibilities of durable solutions”, initiated in 1993 (attention on the Spratly conflict and the impact of regional co-operation).
Research on Vietnamese foreign relations (attention on relations with ASEAN, with Cambodia and with China as well as on territorial issues).
Research on the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam and on relations between China and Vietnam (since 1989) (attention on government policies towards the ethnic Chinese, on Sino-Vietnamese dispute over the minority, on broader bilateral relations and more specifically on territorial issues).
Research on the ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia and on relations between Cambodia and Vietnam (since 1989) (attention on government policies towards the ethnic Vietnamese, on broader relations between the two countries and more specifically territorial issues).
Research on various aspects of the Cambodian Conflict: intervention, conflict resolution, peace-keeping and ethnic relations (since 1989).

Recent publications (for full list of publications see Publ PDF file)

Ramses Amer, “The Resolution of the Cambodian Conflict – Assessing the Explanatory Value of Zartman’s ‘Ripeness Theory’”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 6 (November 2007), pp. 729-742. (England and Norway)
Ramses Amer and Nguyen Hong Thao, “Vietnam's Border Disputes: Legal and Conflict Management Dimensions”, in The Asian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 12 (2005-2006), General Editors, B.S. Chimni, Miyoshi Masahiro and Thio Li-ann (Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007), pp. 111-127. (The Netherlands and the USA) • Nguyen Hong Thao and Ramses Amer, “The Management of Vietnam’s Maritime Boundary Disputes”, Ocean Development and International Law, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 2007), pp. 305-324. (England)
“Pre-emptive Self-Defence New Legal Principle or Political Action?”, in Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace, Edited by Ashok Swain, Ramses Amer and Joakim Öjendal (London, Chicago and New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2007), pp. 39-54 and 237-238. (England, USA and India)

Recent conference papers (for full list see CV PDF-file)

Vietnam and China – Challenges for the Current Relationship and (with Nguyen Hong Thao) Vietnam’s Settlement of Border Disputes – Reviewing the Progress Made and Assessing Remaining Challenges, Papers prepared for Paper prepared for the Panel on: “International Relations”, Sixth EUROVIET Conference – “Vietnam Takes off”, Organised by the: Institute for Asian and African Studies (AAI), Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Hamburg University, Hamburg 6-8 June 2008. (Convenor of the Panel on “International Relations”, Chair of Sessions 1 and 3 and Rapporteur from the Panel).
The ‘Asian Peace’ What is the Role of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)?, Paper prepared Panel SD19 on: “Just And Durable Peace”, International Studies Association, 49th Annual Convention, San Francisco, 26-29 March 2008.
The ‘Boat People’ Crisis Revisited Through an Examination of the Ethnic Chinese Dimension, Paper prepared for the 11th Conference of the International Association of the Study of Force Migration, “Refugees and force migrants at the crossroads: Force migration in a changing world”, Hosted by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the American University in Cairo, Cairo, 6-10 January 2008.
Cambodia and Vietnam A Troubled Relationship, Paper prepared for the International Conference on “Bilateralism Versus Multilateralism in South-East Asia”. Organised by The Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima, 1-3 December 2007.
Democracy From the Outside - A Contested Phenomenon, Paper prepared for the Panel on “Democratic Alternatives in Asia”, Sponsored by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 3rd Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), Organised by Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 23-25 November 2007.