Dr. Patrick Flamm

Patrick Flamm is a senior lecturer of international relations at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He studied international relations at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and Korea University Seoul, South Korea. He received a PhD in asian studies from the University of Auckland. His research has focused on global geopolitical and ecological change, with a particular interest in matters of identity, security, and cooperation in Antarctica and the Asia-Pacific region.

RCC Project: ‘Environmental Leadership’ and Power in Antarctic Geopolitics

Selected Publications:

• “Antarktis im Wandel: vom Vorbild zum Auslaufmodell internationaler Kooperation?” Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, no. 1 (forthcoming).
• “Legitimating the Antarctic Treaty System: From International Club to Ecological Democracy?” Australian Journal of International Affairs (forthcoming).
• with Bob Frame, Yelena Yermakova, Germana Nicklin, Gabriel De Paula, Renuka Badhe, and Francisco Tunez. “Antarctica’s Gateways and Gatekeepers: Polar Scenarios in a Polarising Anthropocene.” The Anthropocene Review (June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211026341.
• “An Unlikely Partnership? New Zealand-South Korea Bilateral Cooperation and Antarctic Order.” Polar Record 57 (January 2021): e4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247420000479.
• Dream of Autonomy: South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• “No Country for Blue Helmets: South Korean Global National Identity on the Screen in ‘Descendants of the Sun.’” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 16, no. 11/3 (May 2018). https://apjjf.org/2018/11/Flamm.html.