Robert W Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 342629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0031-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1931 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication
A test of the integrative mediation model of minority stress with sexual minority adults
Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory
Academic conventions divide up the seamless web of the real social world into separate spheres, each with its own theorising; this is a necessary and practical way of gaining understanding. Subdivisions of social knowledge thus may roughly correspond to the ways in which human affairs are organised in particular times and places. E. H. Carr and Eric Hobsbawm have both been sensitive to the continuities between social forces, the changing nature o…
Heterosexism, Racism, and the Mental Health of Sexual Minority People of Color
In the present study, we examined the additive and multiplicative associations of heterosexist discrimination, racist discrimination, internalized heterosexism, and internalized racism with psychological distress and well-being in 318 sexual minority People of Color. We tested multiplicative associations via two sets of interactions: cross-oppression (Heterosexist Discrimination × Internalized Racism, Racist Discrimination × Internalized Heterose…
Multilateralism and world order
‘World order’ has become a current catchphrase of political discourse and journalism. ‘Multilateralism’ has become something of a growth sector in academic studies. What current events have brought into prominence, scholarship has an obligation to subject to critical analysis. This article raises some of the questions that should be probed in this analysis.
Minority stress and racial or ethnic minority status: A test of the greater risk perspective
Statement by Robert W. Cox
I am grateful to the contributors to this special issue for their views about my work. I am pleased that those taking part in this discussion have felt free to be critical in their comments. I cont
Fuerzas sociales, estados y órdenes mundiales: Más allá de la Teoría de Relaciones Internacionales
En este artículo Cox plantea cómo a lo largo del desarrollo de la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales se han ido enfrentando las distintas percepciones sobre el estado y la sociedad civil. Continúa el texto presentando cómo los enfoques críticos, inicialmente inspirados en el marxismo, más adelante en los conceptos de hegemonía y contra hegemonía y, luego, a través de las teorías del sistema mundo, sirve para retomar la relevancia del po…
How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century
This volume looks outward to the twenty-first century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? In contrast to the orthodoxies of academic Philosophy and International Relations in much of the twentieth century, which marginalised or rejected the study of ethics, the contributors here believe that there is nothing more political than ethics, and therefore deserving of sch…
The ‘British School’ in the Global Context
The International' in Evolution
The `international' today should be approached in an evolutionary way. The fixed categories of neo-realism that served well in the past for analysis of the Cold War are no longer adequate in the fluidity of change today. Nor does the Cartesian perspective of an objective world observed by the analyst correspond to reality. In the evolution of world order, the self-organization of social and political power relations has to be understood as a proc…
A Canadian Dilemma: The United States or the World
Robert W. Cox, A Canadian Dilemma: The United States or the World, International Journal, Vol. 60, No. 3, Canada in the World: Annual John W. Holmes Issue on Canadian Foreign Policy (Summer, 2005), pp. 667-684
Beyond empire and terror: Critical reflections on the political economy of world order
The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical reflections on power, morals and civilization
Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe: The Restructuring of European Social Relations in the Global Political Economy
A Comparative Analysis of Splits in the Austrian, Norwegian and Swedish Labour Movements over EU Membership A.Bieler & S.Torjesen Neo-Liberal Regionalism and the Management of People's Mobility H.Pellerin & H.Overbeek PART IV: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND THE EXPANSION OF NEO-LIBERALISM BEYOND THE EU The Enlargement of the European Union Towards Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Supranational and Transnational Actors O.Holman What Happened to t…
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Critical Theory and World Politics
This book represents the first attempt to bring together the leading critical theorists of world politics to discuss both the promise and the pitfalls of their work. The authors range broadly across the terrain of world politics, engaging with both theory and emancipatory practice. Critiques by two scholars from other IR traditions are also included. The result is a seminal statement of the critical theory approach to understanding world politics…
Thinking about civilizations
The word ‘civilization’—in the singular but also in the plural—has become common of late in the mouths of politicians and in the writings of international relations academics. Samuel Huntington stirred up a storm in political studies by his vision of the future world as a ‘clash’ of civilizations (in the plural);Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’, Foreign Affairs, 72:3, 1993; the article was expanded into a book The Clash of Civi…
Civil society at the turn of the millenium: Prospects for an alternative world order
The meaning of ‘civil society’ has evolved considerably since its use in the context of the 18th century European Enlightenment. Then it signified the realm of private interests, in practice the realm of the bourgeoisie, distinct from the state. While one current of thought retains that meaning and its implications, others view civil society rather as the emancipatory activity of social forces distinct from both state and capital. Antonio Gramsci…
The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order
The new realism differs from Cold War neorealism by including a broad range of non-state forces, peoples' and social movements, that challenge the exclusive dominance of states and the global economy
The Retreat of the State
An Alternative Approach to Multilateralism for the Twenty-first Century
Gramsci, hegemony, and international relations: An essay in method (1983)
Some time ago I began reading Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. In these fragments, written in a fascist prison between 1929 and 1935, the former leader of the Italian Communist Party was concerned with the problem of understanding capitalist societies in the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly with the meaning of fascism and the possibilities of building an alternative form of state and society based on the working class. What he had to say centered upo…
Towards a posthegemonic conceptualization of world order: Reflections on the relevancy of Ibn Khaldun (1992)
When there is a general change of conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
Beyond international relations theory: Robert W. Cox and approaches to world order
Robert W. Cox's work stands outside the usual parameters of international relations theory. Strongly historical in perspective, Cox's method of understanding global change represents a challenge to conventional ontological assumptions about international relations. These assumptions, the central of which is that states are the major actors whose interaction is to be explained, are qualified by Cox based on his observation that the major driving f…
Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory
Academic conventions divide up the seamless web of the real social world into separate spheres, each with its own theorising; this is a necessary and practical way of gaining understanding. Subdivisions of social knowledge thus may roughly correspond to the ways in which human affairs are organised in particular times and places. E. H. Carr and Eric Hobsbawm have both been sensitive to the continuities between social forces, the changing nature o…
Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method
Production, power and world order: Social Forces in the Making of History
The Executive Head: An Essay on Leadership in International Organization
The quality of executive leadership may prove to be the most critical single determinant of the growth in scope and authority of international organization. Now sufficiently long and varied to allow a comparative approach, the history of international organization may provide elements for a theory of leadership. This essay is but a preliminary effort in that direction. It is concerned not only with how the executive head protects and develops his…
Ideologies and the New International Economic Order: Reflections on Some Recent Literature
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The anatomy of influence: Decision Making in International Organization
Middlepowermanship, Japan, and Future World Order
Middle power' and 'functionalism' were key terms in John Holmes's work. His was perhaps the most articulate expression of the thought behind Canadian diplomacy in the reconstruction of international organization after the Second World War. Although the great powers, and in the first place the United States, were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation/ Canada and other middle and smaller powers were, as Holmes underscored, 'also presen…
Labor and hegemony
The United States' notice of withdrawal from the ILO is to be understood in terms of hegemonic power relations. “Tripartism” is an ideology based upon a dominant historical tendency, namely the emergence of a corporative form of state in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The AFL-CIO has participated in the construction of the corporative state in the US and has supported its hegemonic role in the world in concert with American business…
Civil society at the turn of the millenium: Prospects for an alternative world order
The meaning of ‘civil society’ has evolved considerably since its use in the context of the 18th century European Enlightenment. Then it signified the realm of private interests, in practice the realm of the bourgeoisie, distinct from the state. While one current of thought retains that meaning and its implications, others view civil society rather as the emancipatory activity of social forces distinct from both state and capital. Antonio Gramsci…
Multilateralism and world order
‘World order’ has become a current catchphrase of political discourse and journalism. ‘Multilateralism’ has become something of a growth sector in academic studies. What current events have brought into prominence, scholarship has an obligation to subject to critical analysis. This article raises some of the questions that should be probed in this analysis
The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order
The new realism differs from Cold War neorealism by including a broad range of non-state forces, peoples' and social movements, that challenge the exclusive dominance of states and the global economy
Education for Development
The relationship between international organization and developing countries is one of interdependence: developing countries place hope in disinterested help through international agencies; and the needs of the developing world provide stimulus to the expansion of international organization. Yet these two contemporaneous processes of political development—the growth of international organization and nation building in developing areas—may not alw…
The Crisis in World Order and the Challenge to International Organization
This article discusses the role and possibilities of multilateralism in the emerging `new world order'. The analysis of the challenges for multilateral organizations should be made at two levels, namely through problem-solving theory and through critical theory, including investigations of the changes in the global political economy conditioning the workings of multilateralism. The global political economy of today is characterized by a `new capi…
The Crisis of World Order and the Problem of International Organization in the 1980s
The symptoms became apparent one by one during the 1970s, and some people, especially those Europeans who had no great commitment to the status quo, began to link them together and speak of the crisis of capitalism. The decade began with the 'Nixon shocks.' The United States proved unable or unwilling to correct its continuing and cumulatively massive payments deficit, originating in President Lyndon Johnson's guns plus butter policies during the…
Civilizations: Encounters and Transformations
The field of study that has been called international relations is having an identity crisis. Should it really focus only on interstate relations? Should it continue to consider the domestic/international separation sacrosanct? These questions challenge the Westphalian orthodoxy that has hitherto defined the field and they open the prospect of a broader approach embracing global economy, society and ecology, and giving more place to gender, cultu…
On Thinking about Future World Order
Three types of thought approach the question of future world order: the naturalrational, positivist-evolutionary, and historicist-dialectical. The normative criterion in the natural-rational approach has, in recent times, most commonly been bound up with the view that liberal pluralism in polities is the condition for a just world order. This view has, however, succumbed both under the critique of positivist-evolutionary political science which a…
Beyond empire and terror: Critical reflections on the political economy of world order
Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalising and territorially-based social and political forces in the context of past, present and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a 'triple crisis' involving…
Minority stress and racial or ethnic minority status: A test of the greater risk perspective
The International' in Evolution
The `international' today should be approached in an evolutionary way. The fixed categories of neo-realism that served well in the past for analysis of the Cold War are no longer adequate in the fluidity of change today. Nor does the Cartesian perspective of an objective world observed by the analyst correspond to reality. In the evolution of world order, the self-organization of social and political power relations has to be understood as a proc…
Fuerzas sociales, estados y órdenes mundiales: Más allá de la Teoría de Relaciones Internacionales
En este artículo Cox plantea cómo a lo largo del desarrollo de la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales se han ido enfrentando las distintas percepciones sobre el estado y la sociedad civil. Continúa el texto presentando cómo los enfoques críticos, inicialmente inspirados en el marxismo, más adelante en los conceptos de hegemonía y contra hegemonía y, luego, a través de las teorías del sistema mundo, sirve para retomar la relevancia del po…
Labor and Transnational Relations
Since World War II national trade union organizations have become involved in the internal political affairs of other countries, usually through the labor organizations in these countries. Soviet trade unions, a precursor and model in this respect, supported Soviet foreign policy through their international trade union contacts. United States unions played an important role in promoting the Marshall Plan, winning trade union support for it in Wes…
The ‘British School’ in the Global Context
Heterosexism, Racism, and the Mental Health of Sexual Minority People of Color
In the present study, we examined the additive and multiplicative associations of heterosexist discrimination, racist discrimination, internalized heterosexism, and internalized racism with psychological distress and well-being in 318 sexual minority People of Color. We tested multiplicative associations via two sets of interactions: cross-oppression (Heterosexist Discrimination × Internalized Racism, Racist Discrimination × Internalized Heterose…
Thinking about civilizations
The word ‘civilization’—in the singular but also in the plural—has become common of late in the mouths of politicians and in the writings of international relations academics. Samuel Huntington stirred up a storm in political studies by his vision of the future world as a ‘clash’ of civilizations (in the plural);Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’, Foreign Affairs, 72:3, 1993; the article was expanded into a book The Clash of Civi…
The Study of European Institutions: Some Problems of Economic and Political Organization
Education for Development
The relationship between international organization and developing countries is one of interdependence: developing countries place hope in disinterested help through international agencies; and the needs of the developing world provide stimulus to the expansion of international organization. Yet these two contemporaneous processes of political development—the growth of international organization and nation building in developing areas—may not alw…
The Executive Head: An Essay on Leadership in International Organization
The quality of executive leadership may prove to be the most critical single determinant of the growth in scope and authority of international organization. Now sufficiently long and varied to allow a comparative approach, the history of international organization may provide elements for a theory of leadership. This essay is but a preliminary effort in that direction. It is concerned not only with how the executive head protects and develops his…
International Organisation, World Politics: Studies in Economic and Social Agencies
International Organisation: World Politics. Studies in Economic and Social Agencies
Labor and Transnational Relations
Since World War II national trade union organizations have become involved in the internal political affairs of other countries, usually through the labor organizations in these countries. Soviet trade unions, a precursor and model in this respect, supported Soviet foreign policy through their international trade union contacts. United States unions played an important role in promoting the Marshall Plan, winning trade union support for it in Wes…
Science” in the Study of International Organization: A Rejoinder
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The anatomy of influence: Decision Making in International Organization
Canadian Labor in the Continental Perspective
The concept of a transnational system applies well to a study of labor in North America. For one thing, the chief characteristics of the labor market and of the institutions, procedures, and practices of labor relations are broadly similar in Canada and the United States as compared with other parts of the world. Although such similarities are not alone sufficient to suggest a system , there is also a persistent structure of relationships and int…
Leadership in Perspective: A Comment
Messrs. Laitin and Lustick make a useful advance in conceptualizing the components of leadership skill. It is quite obvious that such a venerable but often ill-conceived topic cannot be exhausted, even conceptually, within the space of a short article. I should like here to make three qualifying remarks, which are intended not to detract from the advance made by the two authors but to situate their contribution within a somewhat wider perspective…
On Thinking about Future World Order
Three types of thought approach the question of future world order: the naturalrational, positivist-evolutionary, and historicist-dialectical. The normative criterion in the natural-rational approach has, in recent times, most commonly been bound up with the view that liberal pluralism in polities is the condition for a just world order. This view has, however, succumbed both under the critique of positivist-evolutionary political science which a…
Labor and the Multinationals
Labor and hegemony
The United States' notice of withdrawal from the ILO is to be understood in terms of hegemonic power relations. “Tripartism” is an ideology based upon a dominant historical tendency, namely the emergence of a corporative form of state in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The AFL-CIO has participated in the construction of the corporative state in the US and has supported its hegemonic role in the world in concert with American business…
Pour une étude prospective des relations de production
A l'étude des relations industrielles entachée , selon l'auteur, d'une charge idéologique et réformiste trop lourde , celui-ci propose de substituer celle des relations sociales de production. Prenant davantage en compte les divers moments de l'articulation entre modes de production et relations sociales du travail, reconnaissant que, dans un même contexte concret, des formes différentes et d'une certaine façon non contemporaines peuvent coexiste…
Ideologies and the New International Economic Order: Reflections on Some Recent Literature
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Labor and hegemony: A reply
When I wrote “Labor and hegemony,” I anticipated two kinds of critical reaction: one on the ground that the method and approach was at variance with mainstream political science; the other in defense of two institutional establishments whose ideological foundations were challenged in the article— those of the ILO and the AFL-CIO. Both these organizational establishments place great stock in the idea of tripartism, representing it as a form of plu…
The Crisis of World Order and the Problem of International Organization in the 1980s
The symptoms became apparent one by one during the 1970s, and some people, especially those Europeans who had no great commitment to the status quo, began to link them together and speak of the crisis of capitalism. The decade began with the 'Nixon shocks.' The United States proved unable or unwilling to correct its continuing and cumulatively massive payments deficit, originating in President Lyndon Johnson's guns plus butter policies during the…
In Search of International Political Economy A Review Essay
John Edelman Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977). Stephen D. Krasner, Defending the National Interest. Raw Materials, Investments and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978). Charles‐Albert Michalet, Le capitalisme mondial (Paris: Presses universi‐taires de France, 1976)
Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory
Academic conventions divide up the seamless web of the real social world into separate spheres, each with its own theorising; this is a necessary and practical way of gaining understanding. Subdivisions of social knowledge thus may roughly correspond to the ways in which human affairs are organised in particular times and places. E. H. Carr and Eric Hobsbawm have both been sensitive to the continuities between social forces, the changing nature o…
Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method
Production, power and world order: Social Forces in the Making of History
Common Ground in Asking and Understanding Questions
An important part of the context speakers and listeners use in conversation is their “common ground” — their mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions. This paper reports the findings of two experiments that investigated the role of common ground information in asking and understanding questions. Subjects read stories containing conversations that depicted different degrees of common ground information between the characters who served as speake…
A World Political Economy
Middlepowermanship, Japan, and Future World Order
Middle power' and 'functionalism' were key terms in John Holmes's work. His was perhaps the most articulate expression of the thought behind Canadian diplomacy in the reconstruction of international organization after the Second World War. Although the great powers, and in the first place the United States, were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation/ Canada and other middle and smaller powers were, as Holmes underscored, 'also presen…
The Global Political Economy and Social Choice
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