Lloyd Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lloyd Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lloyd |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7436-2563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trumpism, fascism and neoliberalism
Aukus
This article analyses AUKUS through the theoretical lens of neo‐offensive realism, with its distinctive emphasis on the articulation between system‐level and unit‐level variables for understanding alliance formation and dynamics. In so doing, it examines both system‐level, geostrategic developments that pre‐dispose the AUKUS partners to collectively balance against China, and the unit‐level national politics of those countries, which differential…
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
The ideology of American exceptionalism
For most American politicians and officials, American exceptionalism is the conviction that the United States is both different from and superior to other nations. There are distinctive strands within this overarching, exceptionalist discourse – conservative, neoconservative and liberal, for example – but what they all share is the unshakeable conviction that America is qualitatively different from all other nation-states, and that this differenc…
Australia's Aukus ‘bet’ on the United States
The AUKUS agreement to facilitate Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines has been described by its critics as a ‘bet' on the U.S. This bet entails serious risks for Australia. These risks include uncertainty around construction of the submarines; uncertainty around the U.S.'s long-term commitment to the region; and uncertainty about the future political trajectory of the U.S. These risks are compounded by the sovereignty-constraini…
The Aukus umbrella
In September 2021, Australia, the US, and the United Kingdom entered into a new trilateral security pact, AUKUS. Central to AUKUS is Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, scheduled to begin delivery in the 2030s. AUKUS was announced by Australia's previous conservative government, but it has also won the strong support of the new Labor government. The rationale behind AUKUS emphasizes growing security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and …
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations
This article explores the interplay of status, imitation and affective dissonance in international relations. Some states and nations selectively imitate others to correct perceived status deficits. Over time imitation can diminish ideals of group distinctiveness and independence from models and norm-setters, stimulating a condition we term affective dissonance. This complex of processes underlies some tensions in contemporary world politics. We …
That “Special Something”
Got him’
The extrajudicial killing of Osama bin Laden (OBL) on 2 May 2011 was greeted with jubilation in the United States. The dominant interpretation of the event – expressed in US media, by US political elites, and on the streets of US cities – was that justice had been served on the perpetrator of the 9/11 atrocity and thereby a great historical wrong had been righted. This article argues that the ‘justice’ deployed was a proxy for revenge, understood…
Empire
The analysis of empire and imperialism has been reinvigorated since the early 2000s, largely in response to the United States' shift to a more muscular and unilateralist foreign policy. Routine comparisons are now made between the contemporary United States on the one hand, and the Roman, British and other empires on the other. This entry clarifies the terminological and conceptual issues at stake in these debates, as well as giving some historic…
Socialism
Socialism refers to doctrines and practices sharing a pattern of family resemblances centered on collective property, social equality, co‐operation, and communal forms of economic and political association. Beyond these shared attributes, socialism as doctrine and practice is characterized by immense diversity and competing claims to authenticity, which belie the frequent eliding of socialism with Marxism. This internal diversity was already pres…
Nation‐States and Nationalism
Despite much eulogizing about the death of the nation‐state and nationalism, these political forms continue to flourish amid intensified globalization. The growth of nationalist contentions since the end of the Cold War has been reflected in heightened scholarly interest in nationalist phenomena. Drawing upon this literature, this entry disentangles some of the conceptual confusion that surrounds these topics, as well as introducing some of the k…
Empire
Analyses of empire have proliferated in recent years. This was prompted by the United States' pivot to a more militant and unilateral foreign policy under the presidency of George W. Bush. Questions raised about the nature of contemporary US power have led to a broader reconsideration of empires, new and old. This entry situates such debates within a discussion of the historical development of empires and imperialism, from antiquity to the presen…
Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
The authors refute the portrayal of Australia as America's pliant ally in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, instead arguing that Australian leaders saw such involvement as strategic opportunities to strengthen the Australian–American alliance. In the case of the Vietnam War particularly, the Australian government also saw these conflicts as a way to draw America into greater military engagement in their region. The authors' interpretation follows earlie…
Nation‐State and Nationalism
Nationalism can be defined in a broad and a narrow sense. In its broadest sense it refers to the sum of those beliefs, idioms, and practices oriented to a territorially delineated “nation,” and embodied in the political demands of a people who collectively identify with a nation. This may or may not entail the existence of or demand for a separate national state, or be realized in a self‐conscious nationalist movement, though historically this is…
Global Politics
Global politics refers to patterns of political relations and activities that stretch across state borders, and whose consequences are, potentially and/or actually, worldwide in scope. As such, global politics includes but is not limited to interstate relations, and is not explicable in terms of those approaches conventionally deployed by realist scholars of international relations (IR). The latter have routinely assumed the primacy of sovereign,…
Empire
In its broadest transhistorical sense empire refers to a large‐scale, multi‐ethnic political unit (usually with a state at its core) that directly or indirectly rules over, and therefore encompasses, smaller political units that were previously independent. Hence, empire always involves relations of domination and subordination between core and peripheral areas and their populations, which are most often established by conquest and maintained, in…
The Antipodean social laboratory, labour and the transformation of the welfare state
The Australian and New Zealand welfare states have undergone dramatic transformations since the early 1980s. This has led some commentators to redeploy the 'social laboratory' metaphor widely used to describe Australasia at the turn of the 19th century. This article analyses the disjunctures in Australia's and New Zealand's experience of transforming the welfare state, and seeks to account for them. Drawing inspiration from comparative political …
Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
The authors refute the portrayal of Australia as America's pliant ally in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, instead arguing that Australian leaders saw such involvement as strategic opportunities to strengthen the Australian–American alliance. In the case of the Vietnam War particularly, the Australian government also saw these conflicts as a way to draw America into greater military engagement in their region. The authors' interpretation follows earlie…
Australia's Aukus ‘bet’ on the United States
The AUKUS agreement to facilitate Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines has been described by its critics as a ‘bet' on the U.S. This bet entails serious risks for Australia. These risks include uncertainty around construction of the submarines; uncertainty around the U.S.'s long-term commitment to the region; and uncertainty about the future political trajectory of the U.S. These risks are compounded by the sovereignty-constraini…
The Antipodean social laboratory, labour and the transformation of the welfare state
The Australian and New Zealand welfare states have undergone dramatic transformations since the early 1980s. This has led some commentators to redeploy the 'social laboratory' metaphor widely used to describe Australasia at the turn of the 19th century. This article analyses the disjunctures in Australia's and New Zealand's experience of transforming the welfare state, and seeks to account for them. Drawing inspiration from comparative political …
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
Got him’
The extrajudicial killing of Osama bin Laden (OBL) on 2 May 2011 was greeted with jubilation in the United States. The dominant interpretation of the event – expressed in US media, by US political elites, and on the streets of US cities – was that justice had been served on the perpetrator of the 9/11 atrocity and thereby a great historical wrong had been righted. This article argues that the ‘justice’ deployed was a proxy for revenge, understood…
The Aukus umbrella
In September 2021, Australia, the US, and the United Kingdom entered into a new trilateral security pact, AUKUS. Central to AUKUS is Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, scheduled to begin delivery in the 2030s. AUKUS was announced by Australia's previous conservative government, but it has also won the strong support of the new Labor government. The rationale behind AUKUS emphasizes growing security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and …
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations
This article explores the interplay of status, imitation and affective dissonance in international relations. Some states and nations selectively imitate others to correct perceived status deficits. Over time imitation can diminish ideals of group distinctiveness and independence from models and norm-setters, stimulating a condition we term affective dissonance. This complex of processes underlies some tensions in contemporary world politics. We …
That “Special Something”
Trumpism, fascism and neoliberalism
The ideology of American exceptionalism
For most American politicians and officials, American exceptionalism is the conviction that the United States is both different from and superior to other nations. There are distinctive strands within this overarching, exceptionalist discourse – conservative, neoconservative and liberal, for example – but what they all share is the unshakeable conviction that America is qualitatively different from all other nation-states, and that this differenc…
The Antipodean social laboratory, labour and the transformation of the welfare state
The Australian and New Zealand welfare states have undergone dramatic transformations since the early 1980s. This has led some commentators to redeploy the 'social laboratory' metaphor widely used to describe Australasia at the turn of the 19th century. This article analyses the disjunctures in Australia's and New Zealand's experience of transforming the welfare state, and seeks to account for them. Drawing inspiration from comparative political …
Nation‐State and Nationalism
Nationalism can be defined in a broad and a narrow sense. In its broadest sense it refers to the sum of those beliefs, idioms, and practices oriented to a territorially delineated “nation,” and embodied in the political demands of a people who collectively identify with a nation. This may or may not entail the existence of or demand for a separate national state, or be realized in a self‐conscious nationalist movement, though historically this is…
Global Politics
Global politics refers to patterns of political relations and activities that stretch across state borders, and whose consequences are, potentially and/or actually, worldwide in scope. As such, global politics includes but is not limited to interstate relations, and is not explicable in terms of those approaches conventionally deployed by realist scholars of international relations (IR). The latter have routinely assumed the primacy of sovereign,…
Empire
In its broadest transhistorical sense empire refers to a large‐scale, multi‐ethnic political unit (usually with a state at its core) that directly or indirectly rules over, and therefore encompasses, smaller political units that were previously independent. Hence, empire always involves relations of domination and subordination between core and peripheral areas and their populations, which are most often established by conquest and maintained, in…
Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
The authors refute the portrayal of Australia as America's pliant ally in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, instead arguing that Australian leaders saw such involvement as strategic opportunities to strengthen the Australian–American alliance. In the case of the Vietnam War particularly, the Australian government also saw these conflicts as a way to draw America into greater military engagement in their region. The authors' interpretation follows earlie…
Nation‐States and Nationalism
Despite much eulogizing about the death of the nation‐state and nationalism, these political forms continue to flourish amid intensified globalization. The growth of nationalist contentions since the end of the Cold War has been reflected in heightened scholarly interest in nationalist phenomena. Drawing upon this literature, this entry disentangles some of the conceptual confusion that surrounds these topics, as well as introducing some of the k…
Empire
Analyses of empire have proliferated in recent years. This was prompted by the United States' pivot to a more militant and unilateral foreign policy under the presidency of George W. Bush. Questions raised about the nature of contemporary US power have led to a broader reconsideration of empires, new and old. This entry situates such debates within a discussion of the historical development of empires and imperialism, from antiquity to the presen…
Got him’
The extrajudicial killing of Osama bin Laden (OBL) on 2 May 2011 was greeted with jubilation in the United States. The dominant interpretation of the event – expressed in US media, by US political elites, and on the streets of US cities – was that justice had been served on the perpetrator of the 9/11 atrocity and thereby a great historical wrong had been righted. This article argues that the ‘justice’ deployed was a proxy for revenge, understood…
Empire
The analysis of empire and imperialism has been reinvigorated since the early 2000s, largely in response to the United States' shift to a more muscular and unilateralist foreign policy. Routine comparisons are now made between the contemporary United States on the one hand, and the Roman, British and other empires on the other. This entry clarifies the terminological and conceptual issues at stake in these debates, as well as giving some historic…
Socialism
Socialism refers to doctrines and practices sharing a pattern of family resemblances centered on collective property, social equality, co‐operation, and communal forms of economic and political association. Beyond these shared attributes, socialism as doctrine and practice is characterized by immense diversity and competing claims to authenticity, which belie the frequent eliding of socialism with Marxism. This internal diversity was already pres…
That “Special Something”
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations
This article explores the interplay of status, imitation and affective dissonance in international relations. Some states and nations selectively imitate others to correct perceived status deficits. Over time imitation can diminish ideals of group distinctiveness and independence from models and norm-setters, stimulating a condition we term affective dissonance. This complex of processes underlies some tensions in contemporary world politics. We …
Australia's Aukus ‘bet’ on the United States
The AUKUS agreement to facilitate Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines has been described by its critics as a ‘bet' on the U.S. This bet entails serious risks for Australia. These risks include uncertainty around construction of the submarines; uncertainty around the U.S.'s long-term commitment to the region; and uncertainty about the future political trajectory of the U.S. These risks are compounded by the sovereignty-constraini…
The Aukus umbrella
In September 2021, Australia, the US, and the United Kingdom entered into a new trilateral security pact, AUKUS. Central to AUKUS is Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, scheduled to begin delivery in the 2030s. AUKUS was announced by Australia's previous conservative government, but it has also won the strong support of the new Labor government. The rationale behind AUKUS emphasizes growing security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and …
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era
The covid-19 crisis has accelerated automation and digitalization in many aspects of social life. Social distancing and lockdowns, combined with the imperative to preserve economic activity, have seen much work and education move online, while the digitalization of government services has intensified. These developments slowed the spread of covid-19 but their broader effects, both positive and negative, have been unevenly distributed. One group f…
The ideology of American exceptionalism
For most American politicians and officials, American exceptionalism is the conviction that the United States is both different from and superior to other nations. There are distinctive strands within this overarching, exceptionalist discourse – conservative, neoconservative and liberal, for example – but what they all share is the unshakeable conviction that America is qualitatively different from all other nation-states, and that this differenc…
Trumpism, fascism and neoliberalism
Aukus
This article analyses AUKUS through the theoretical lens of neo‐offensive realism, with its distinctive emphasis on the articulation between system‐level and unit‐level variables for understanding alliance formation and dynamics. In so doing, it examines both system‐level, geostrategic developments that pre‐dispose the AUKUS partners to collectively balance against China, and the unit‐level national politics of those countries, which differential…
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