Beyond international relations theory

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 forces of world order change, albeit slowly, over time. Rather than discuss “the state,” Cox's focus has been on forms of state and how these change under pressure from forces from above (world order) and from below (civil society). Cox considers states to be focal terrains of conflict and institutional means of action internationally and nationally. In Cox's worldview the future represents an opportunity to break with the structures of the past and thus the potential to escape the strictures that bind human potential.

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• The challenges of articulating 'top down' and 'bottom up' development through sport

  David R Black•Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal•2017

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• The environment and emancipation in critical security studies

  Cameron Harrington, Emma Lecavalier•Critical Studies on Security•2014

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• Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History

  Randall Germain•Globalizations•2016

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• Critical Debates on Liberal Peacebuilding

  Nicolas Lemay-Hébert•Civil Wars•2013

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• DisAbling Globalisation

  Deborah Stienstra•Global Society•2002

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• The Political Economy of Mobility Partnerships – Structural Power in the EU's External Migration Policy

  Julia Maisenbacher•New Political Economy•2015

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• Two regionalisms, two Latin Americas or beyond Latin America? Contributions from a critical and decolonial IPE

  Ernesto Vivares, Michele Dolcetti-Marcolini•Third World Quarterly•2016

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• Public meets private

  A Claire Cutler•Global Society•1999

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• Whatever Happened to American Decline? International Relations and the New United States Hegemony

  Martha Cox, Michael Cox•New Political Economy•2001

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• Anatomia de uma crise

  Open Access•Octávio Henrique Alves Costa De Oliveira, Marcos Do Vale Araujo et al.•Cadernos Cemarx•2022

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