L.H.M. Ling is Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York. Her research focuses on International Relations (IR) as a world-of-worlds or worldism.

She has authored four books: Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (2002), Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (co-authored with A.M. Agathangelou, York University, 2009); The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations (2014); and Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times (2014).

Two books are forthcoming: A Worldly World Order: Epistemic Compassion for International Relations (Oxford University Press) and Between India and China: An Ancient Dialectic for Contemporary Times (co-authored with Payal Banerjee, Smith College, Rowman & Littlefield).

Professor Ling has edited or co-edited the following anthologies: Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations (co-edited with Pinar Bilgin, 2017); India China: Rethinking Borders and Security (2016); and Four Seas to One Family: Overseas Chinese and the Chinese Dream (co-edited with Tan Chung, in Chinese and English, 2015).

Along with John M. Hobson (Sheffield University), Professor Ling co-edits a book series, Global Dialogues: Developing Non-Eurocentric International Relations and International Political Economy, at Rowman & Littlefield International.