Robert W. Cox
Robert Warburton Cox
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Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Cox graduated in 1946 from McGill University in Montreal, where he received a Master's degree in history. Following his graduation, he worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO), where he would remain for a quarter century, helping to set up and design the International Institute for Labor Studies.
In his academic career, Cox is known for his fierce independence and unwavering challenge of orthodoxy, as well as for his historical approach. While his initial scholarly contributions during his time at Columbia University were quite conventional and focused on international organizations, following from his experience in the ILO, he soon adopted a more radical perspective. During his time at York University, he began to reassert himself in a historical manner, reflective of his previous training at McGill University, which enabled him to take on more ambitious themes. Cox describes his academic interests as no less than understanding "the structures that underlie the world".[2] Cox died on October 9, 2018.[3]
Bibliography
Books
- Universal Foreigner: The Individual and the World (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2014).
- Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
- The Anatomy of Influence: Decision Making in International Organization (London: Yale University Press, 1973), with Harold K. Jacobson.
Articles
- Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method (1983) Millennium 12, no. 2.
- Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory (1981) Millennium 10, no. 2.
Edited works
- The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical Reflections on Power, Morals, and Civilization (London: Routledge, 2002), with Michael G. Schechter.
- Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), with Timothy J. Sinclair.
Notes
- ^ Cohen, B. (2008) International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, Princeton: Princeton University Press
- ^ Cox, Robert (1999). "Conversation". New Political Economy. 4 (3): 389–398.
- ^ Robert Cox
External links
- Interview with Robert Cox by Theory Talks
- Tributes to Robert W. Cox by Shannon Brincat
