Robert W.

Cox

Robert W. Cox
Robert Cox (born 1926) is a former political science professor and United Nations officer. He is cited as one of the intellectual leaders, along with Susan Strange, of the British School of International Political Economy[1] and is still active as a scholar after his formal retirement, writing and giving occasional lectures. He is currently professor emeritus of political science and social and political thought at York University. He started work at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland in 1947, eventually serving as director of the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies (196571). Following his departure from the ILO he taught at Columbia University. From 1977 to 1992 he was professor of political science at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Biography
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 Labor Organization 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 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] His theoretical framework, which revolves around an appropriation of Antonio Gramsci's concept of "hegemony", has recently been subjected to severe criticism by one of his former students.[3]

Bibliography
The Anatomy of Influence : decision making in international organization (1973), with Harold K. Jacobson Production, Power and World Order (1987)

Edited Works
Approaches to World Order (co-editor, 1996) The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical Reflections on Power, Morals, and Civilization (co-editor, 2002)

Notes
[1] Cohen, B. (2008) International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, Princeton: Princeton University Press [2] Cox, Robert (1999). "Conversation". New Political Economy 4 (3): 389398. [3] Lacher, Hannes, and Julian Germann. (2012) Before Hegemony: Britain, Free Trade, and Nineteenth-Century World Order Revisited. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01100.x; Lacher, Hannes, (2008), History, Structure and World Orders: The (Cross) Purposes of Neo-Gramscian Theory , in A. Ayers (dir.), Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations, Londres, Palgrave

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External links
Interview with Robert Cox by Theory Talks (http://www.theory-talks.org/2010/03/theory-talk-37.html)

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