Michael Cox
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3621064 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Cox |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Cox |
| ASSINATURA | COX M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6468-6046 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 137 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 505 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Eurasian century
The last politician
By Franklin Foer. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. 432pp. £23.64. Isbn978 1 10198 114 6. Available as e-book
Cold Peace
How academic podcasting can change academia and its relationship with society
In this paper we explore the potential of academic podcasting to effect positive change within academia and between academia and society. Building on the concept of “epistemic living spaces,” we consider how podcasting can change how we evaluate what is legitimate knowledge and methods for knowledge production, who has access to what privileges and power, the nature of our connections within academia and with other partners, and how we experience…
The war in Ukraine
This short article offers some tentative suggestions about how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath as experienced by Central and Eastern European states may inform our understanding of the current war in Ukraine. In doing so, this contribution has no pretensions to be either final in its suggestions nor exhaustive in considering the rich literature about Central and Eastern Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural \nCold War ex…
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network
Considering increasing water insecurities related to climate change, there is a growing need for effective collaboration across core-periphery boundaries to restore and regenerate watershed vitality. It has been demonstrated that collaborative watershed governance is effective when there is a core group engaging in boundary acting, fostering interpersonal relationships, exchanging information, and sharing activities amongst stakeholders across a …
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
What do Think Tanks do? Chatham House in search of the United States
Nationalism and After
Published in 1945, Nationalism and After was a best-selling classic in its own time which sparked intense debate when it first appeared and has continued to do so ever since. Authored in a moment of hope, E.H. Carr’s uncompromising critique of nationalism and plea for a more rational international order remains as relevant today as it did when it was first written. As the world is once again confronted by a rising tide of nationalism, Nationalism…
E. H. Carr, Chatham House and Nationalism
A great deal has been written about the intellectual sources of E. H. Carr's most famous book in International Relations, The twenty years’ crisis, published on the eve of the Second World War. However, very little attention has been paid to the contribution which Chatham House made to the book after having appointed Carr to chair a study group on ‘Nationalism’ in 1936. The volume which appeared three years later was not the most scintillating of…
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks
Cox, M., G. G. Gurney, J. M. Anderies, E. Coleman, E. Darling, G. B. Epstein, U. Frey, M. Nenadovic, E. Schlager, and S. Villamayor-Tomas. 2021. Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks. Ecology and Society 26(1):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12092-260117
The Making of a Masterpiece
From concepts to comparisons
Power, structural power, and American decline
Over the past twenty years, debates surrounding American power have oscillated between celebrations of empire and laments of decline. What explains such wild fluctuations? This article argues that the power shifts debate rests on an underpinning concept of power based around relative capabilities that is theoretically not fit for purpose. We propose instead an approach to power shifts that locates power primarily in structural power. In doing so …
Beyond 1917
If one happens to have been born in Europe, it is almost impossible to escape the First World War. Go to any small village in France or any town square in Britain and look at the memorials there and you soon get a sense of the loss and the impact which the war had on these two countries. The war is also annually commemorated, no more movingly perhaps than in Great Britain on the nearest Sunday to 11 November when the Cenotaph along Whitehall in L…
Nationalism, nations and the crisis of world order
One hundred years ago, the first Department of International Politics was established at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, with the express purpose of seeking in Arnold Toynbee’s prophetic words (uttered many years later) – of breaking decisively with the ‘habit of nationalism’. As David Davies in the founding statement put it, by moving beyond ‘insular and vested prejudices ... the shattered family of nations’ could be brought back t…
Introduction
This work examines how domestic politics and culture shape US foreign policy, with particular emphasis on the role of institutions and processes. It considers the ways in which pressure groups and elites determine influence what the United States does abroad, the importance of regional shifts and media and their impact on the making of US foreign policy, and US relations with Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America…
The economic rise of a superpower
This chapter focuses on the American political economy from the colonial period to Donald Trump. In particular, it examines how the United States emerged from being a predominantly agricultural country to the wealthiest economic power in the world. The chapter first considers America’s economic rise before independence before discussing the role played by economic factors in sparking war between Great Britain and American colonists. It then looks…
US Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy provides a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected. This text aims to help with the critically assessment of US foreign policy, presenting the reader with diverse political perspectives and giving them the tools to come to their own conclusions. Carefully developed ‘major debates’ and ‘controversies’ features help readers to connect theory with the real-world politics. As policy continues to change before…
Safeguarding democratic capitalism
Safeguarding democratic capitalism: US foreign policy and national security, 1920–2015." Cold War History, 18(4), pp. 521–522
Progressivism and US foreign policy between the world wars
The last few years have been extraordinarily rich ones for those interested in the history of international thought. E. H. Carr has certainly had a good run for his money, as has Hans Morgenthau. Not to mention a whole raft of interwar thinkers from Leonard Woolf to Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Arnold J. Toynbee and John Maynard Keynes. Though much, no doubt, still needs to be done. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson—the intellectual father of the concept of…
Advancing social-ecological research through teaching
Supernatural monitoring and sanctioning in community-based resource management
Cooperation in human societies is difficult to sustain if mechanisms are not in place to monitor behavior and sanction transgressions. Unfortunately, these mechanisms constitute second-order public goods that are vulnerable to freeriding. Religion has been proposed to solve this problem by shifting these burdens to the realm of the supernatural. However, very little research has been done to examine the specific content of beliefs in supernatural…
US foreign policy
HISTORICAL CONTEXTS INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD KEY ISSUES FUTURES AND SCENARIOS
Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies
US Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy provides a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected. This text aims to help with the critically assessment of US foreign policy, presenting the reader with diverse political perspectives and giving them the tools to come to their own conclusions. Carefully developed ‘major debates’ and ‘controversies’ features help readers to connect theory with the real-world politics. As policy continues to change before…
The Empire's Back in Town
A version of this paper was first presented at the London School of Economics as part of the Miliband lecture series. I would like to thank Professor David Held — a staunch supporter — for having invited me to give the lecture, the audience who turned up on what turned out to be a fine LSE occasion, the two anonymous referees for this article, and the Board of Millennium
American Democracy Promotion
In an era characterized by humanitarian intervention and the employment of “good governance” as a criterion for foreign assistance, an examination of the promotion of democracy by the most powerful actor in the international system is a timely and useful reminder of what may, and what may not, be achieved in altering the ways that a people governs itself. Most of these diverse studies argue that what the United States has promoted is a version of…
Bringing in the 'international
This article argues that the IRA ceasefire of 31 August 1994 represented a major turning-point in Irish history. However, it insists that the discussion about the ceasefire has thus far been too narrowly conceived. In particular, it suggests that the IRA decision was not just the result of factors internal to Ireland, but was also a reflection of changes in the wider international order: especially those brought about by the end of the Cold War. …
Missing ecology
The social-ecological systems framework was designed to provide a common research tool for interdisciplinary investigations of social-ecological systems. However, its origin in institutional studies of the commons belies its interdisciplinary ambitions and highlights its relatively limited attention to ecology and natural scientific knowledge. This paper considers the biophysical components of the framework and its epistemological foundations as …
Whatever Happened to American Decline? International Relations and the New United States Hegemony
(2001). Whatever Happened to American Decline? International Relations and the New United States Hegemony. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 311-340
The Role of Religion in Community-based Natural Resource Management
Applying a Social-Ecological System Framework to the Study of the Taos Valley Irrigation System
Locating a Sample by Random Digit Dialing
Journal Article Locating a Sample by Random Digit Dialing Get access Mathew Hauck, Mathew Hauck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Cox Michael Cox Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 253–260, https://doi.org/10.1086/268156 Published: 01 January 1974
Power, structural power, and American decline
Over the past twenty years, debates surrounding American power have oscillated between celebrations of empire and laments of decline. What explains such wild fluctuations? This article argues that the power shifts debate rests on an underpinning concept of power based around relative capabilities that is theoretically not fit for purpose. We propose instead an approach to power shifts that locates power primarily in structural power. In doing so …
Beyond the West
One of the least expected but most significant events of recent years is that which led to a profound crisis in the transatlantic relationship. The argument advanced here is that the split between a number of European states and the United States of America not only casts doubt on the idea of the ‘West’ but also brings into question various liberal theories of international politics that suggest that the two regions are so bound together by ideol…
Still the American Empire
Over the past few years there has been an intellectually controversial, strategically significant and politically charged debate as to whether America should – or should not – be characterised as an empire. More recently, it has become equally fashionable to argue that this empire is either now failing or in steep decline. This essay examines the background to the original ‘empire debate', suggests that the notion of empire is one that can (with …
China and the US
Competing great powers, and the potential for clashes among them when there are changes of place at the top of the hierarchy, are an old story in international relations. Against this realist model of inevitably warlike power struggles stands another idea: 'peaceful rise'. China committed itself to this policy a decade ago, and arguably adopted it as far back as the shift to reform and opening up in the late 1970s. The only other modern great pow…
Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West
It has become the new truth of the early twenty-first century that the Western world we have known is fast losing its pre-eminence to be replaced by a new international system shaped either by the so-called BRICs comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China, the 'rest', or more popularly by that very broadly defined geographical entity known as Asia. This at least is how many economists, historians and students of world politics are now viewing the…
Empire, imperialism and the Bush doctrine
It is an empire without a consciousness of itself as such, constantly shocked that its good intentions arouse resentment abroad. But that does not make it any the less of an empire, with a conviction that it alone, in Herman Melville's words, bears ‘the ark of liberties of the world. If all history according to Marx has been the history of class struggle, then all international history, it could just as well be argued, has been the struggle betwe…
The Cyprus Conspiracy
Strategic prize - Britain's vital military base the enemy within - the rise of the Enosis campaign the secret alliance -Eden stokes Turkish violence military crackdown - Harding gets tough hamstrung at Suez - Grivas sabotages military preparations Macmillan's pact - Eisenhower deal frees Makarios sounding the retreat - NATO allowed to mediate North Atlantic agenda -Eisenhower rejects the Macmillan plan pax americana - the settlement secures NATO …
Commentary
U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War
The American tradition in foreign affairs - ideals versus self interest Cold War legacies international security the agenda on trade the policy process in Washington DC two case studies - the United States the United States and the 21st century
A basic guide for empirical environmental social science
In this paper, I address a gap in the literature on environmental social science by providing a basic rubric for the conduct of empirical research in this interdisciplinary field. Current literature displays a healthy diversity of methods and techniques, but this has also been accompanied by a lack of consistency in the way in which research in this area is done. In part this can be seen as resulting from a lack in supporting texts that would pro…
E.H. Carr and the Crisis of Twentieth-Century Liberalism
E.H. Carr’s contribution to IR is recognised as being of central importance in the history of the field. But it is sometimes forgotten that he began to develop his world viewpoint — through a critique of liberalism — almost 20 years before he published his classic The Twenty Years’ Crisis in 1939. These views began to take shape during the Paris peace negotiations in 1919, and were then given sharper definition still following the world economic …
Empire by denial
The issue of empire has once again become a major political question in American foreign policy discourse. But whereas in the 1960s the discussion was one that mainly concerned the radical left, over the past few years the debate has largely been conducted within neo-conservative circles. The discussion is one that should be taken seriously-in part because of its intrinsically interesting character and in part because of what it tells us about th…
Empire by Denial? Debating US Power
The reluctant sheriff
Journal Article The reluctant sheriff: the United States after the Cold War Get access The reluctant sheriff: the United States after the Cold War. By Richard N. HaassWashington DC: Council on Foreign Relations Press. 1997. 148pp. Index. $24.95. ISBN0 876 09201 6.American diplomacy and the end of the Cold War. By Robert L. Hutchings. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. 456pp. Index. ISBN0 801 85620 5. Michael Cox Michael Cox …
George F Kennan
Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War
It has often been remarked that the victors do not merely harvest the fruits of war, but are then situated by virtue of their position to write the 'real' history of how that war began, who fought it most ethically, and the key part they then played in bringing it to a victorious and just end. This article argues that this pattern of writing the past, and thereby defining it, has been much in evidence in the wider American historiography on the e…
Locating a Sample by Random Digit Dialing
Journal Article Locating a Sample by Random Digit Dialing Get access Mathew Hauck, Mathew Hauck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Cox Michael Cox Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 253–260, https://doi.org/10.1086/268156 Published: 01 January 1974
From Detente to the 'New Cold War
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Soviet Threat
Whatever happended to the ‘Second’ Cold War? Soviet—American relations
During his eight years in office Ronald Reagan attempted not only to dominate the US political scene but to establish a clear neo-conservative agenda for the American nation. When he came to power he had two main objectives. The first was to roll back the hand of government, for as he put it, ‘the ills of a nation stem from a single source: the belief that government... has the answer to our ills’. The second was to rebuild America's position in …
From the Truman Doctrine to the Second Superpower Detente
This article provides an overview of the Cold War from its origins in 1947 to the present day. It begins with a discussion of the balance of power after the war and asks why - if the USSR was as weak as many assumed - did a very powerful United States regard it as a threat to the West's vital interests. This discussion is then followed by an examination of the Cold War as a `system' which concludes that for both superpowers bipolarity was an acce…
Superpower politics
Journal Article Superpower politics: change in the United States and the Soviet Union Get access Superpower politics: change in the United States and the Soviet Union. Edited by Michael Pughand Phil Williams. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1990. 208pp. £29.95; ISBN 0 7190 3283 0. Pb. : £5.95; ISBN 0 7190 3284 9. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Perestroika and Soviet national security
Journal Article Perestroika and Soviet national security Get access Perestroika and Soviet national security. By Michael MccGwire. Washington, DC: Brookings. 1991. 481pp. Index. $39.95; ISBN 0 8157 7022 7. Pb.: $18.95; ISBN 0 8157 5553 8. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 818–819, https://doi.o…
Trotsky and His Interpreters; or, Will the Real Leon Trotsky Please Stand up
A s result of its efforts to move the Soviet system beyond Stalinism, the regime in the USSR has been impelled by the logic of its own reformism to rewrite the history of the country. To move forward the Soviet political leadership obviously assumes it has to settle accounts with its past. The revision of Soviet history since 1985 has, as R. W. Davies has shown, produced some quite extraordinary results.1 The two most important, so far, have been…
Trotsky and Djilas
After communism
Journal Article After communism: from the Atlantic to the Urals Get access After communism: from the Atlantic to the Urals. By Jacques Lesourneand Bernard Lecomte. Reading: Harwood Academic. 1991. 271pp. Index. £36.00. ISBN 3 7186 5211 0. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen’s University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Pages 736–737, https://do…
A preponderance of power
Journal Article A preponderance of power: national security, the Truman administration and the Cold War Get access A preponderance of power: national security, the Truman administration and the Cold War. By Melvyn P. Leffler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1992. 689pp. Index. $29.95. ISBN 0 8047 1924 1. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inter…
Bernard Brodie and the foundations of American nuclear strategy
Trotsky, Stalin and Socialism
Socialism and the course of revolution Trotsky's conception of the revolutionary process the Left opposition and the evolution of Soviet communism socialist alternatives in the trade union controversy forging the apparatus - the secretariat and the local organizations in the Russian Communist Party, 1921-1923 evolution of leadership selection in the Central Committee, 1917-1927 Trotsky on proletarian democracy and party bureaucracy, 1923-1937 Sov…
Origins of the Crisis in the USSR
Hillel Ticktin has been one of the most controversial figures in Soviet studies for 25 years. His assertions that the Soviet economy was hopelessly inefficient, that the ruble was a sham, and that the elite was desperate once sounded outrageous. Ticktin consistently argued that perestroika would fail. In his view the USSR was and remained inherently Stalinist. It might lurch back and forth between reformist and reactionary leadership factions but…
Dean Acheson and the making of US foreign policy
Journal Article Dean Acheson and the making of US foreign policy Get access Dean Acheson and the making of US foreign policy. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. London: Macmillan. 1993. 271pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 333 56735 8. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 4, October 1993, Pages 783–784, https://doi.org/10.2307/262…
The consequences of the peace
Journal Article The consequences of the peace: the new internationalism and American foreign policy Get access The consequences of the peace: the new internationalism and American foreign policy. By James Chace. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. 221pp. Index. £15.00. ISBN 0 19 507411 4. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volu…
Closing Pandora's box
Journal Article Closing Pandora's box: arms races, arms control, and the history of the Cold War Get access Closing Pandora's box: arms races, arms control, and the history of the Cold War. By Patrick Glynn. New York: BasicBooks (A New Republic Book). 1992. 445pp. Index. $30.00. ISBN 0 465 098096. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs…
The end of the Cold War
Journal Article The end of the Cold War: its meanings and implications Get access The end of the Cold War: its meanings and implications. Edited by Michael J. Hogan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. 294pp. Index. £30.00; isbn0 521 43128 x. Pb.: £11.95; isbn0 521 43731 8. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Is…
The United States and the end of the Cold War
George F. Kennan and the making of American foreign policy, 1947–1950
Journal Article George F. Kennan and the making of American foreign policy, 1947–1950 Get access George F. Kennan and the making of American foreign policy, 1947–1950. By Wilson D. Miscamble. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1992. 419pp. Index. $35.00. ISBN 0 691 08620 6. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Iss…
Around the cragged hill
Journal Article Around the cragged hill: a personal and political philosophy Get access Around the cragged hill: a personal and political philosophy. By George F. Kennan. New York, London: Norton. 1993. 272pp. Index. £16.50. ISBN 0 393 03411 9. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 4, October 1993, Pages 823–824, htt…
Kissinger
Journal Article Kissinger: a biography Get access Kissinger: a biography. By Walter Isaacson. London: Faber & Faber. 1992. 893pp. £25.00. ISBN 0 571 16858 2. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621659 Published: 01 April 1993
Rethinking the End of The Cold War
Like nuclear weapons, the literature on the end of the Cold War continues to proliferate. Much of this work it has to be said has been limited in its depth (if not range) by the simple fact that the structure of the new international order has yet to assume a finished form. Writing meaningfully about a constantly evolving subject is no easy undertaking. There is also the added problem of perspective. In many ways we are still living too close to …
The elusive balance
Journal Article The elusive balance: power and perceptions during the Cold War Get access The elusive balance: power and perceptions during the Cold War. By William Curti Wohlforth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1993. 317pp. Index. $43.95; ISBN 0 8014 2822 x. Pb.: $18.65; ISBN 0 8014 8149 x. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affai…
Turmoil and triumph
Journal Article Turmoil and triumph: my years as secretary of state Get access Turmoil and triumph: my years as secretary of state. By George P. Shultz. New York: Scribner's. 1993. 1184pp. Index. £25.95. ISBN 0 684 19325 6. Michael Cox Michael Cox 1The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 1994, Pages 351–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/26…
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