Robert W. Cox

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Robert W. Cox (* 1926 in Montreal ; † October 2018 ) was a political scientist from Canada . He founded together with Stephen Gill the neo-gramscianism and thus made the theories of Antonio Gramsci on the political science sub-discipline of International Relations fruitful.

Life

As a student, Cox worked for the International Labor Organization (ILO), whose headquarters were relocated from Geneva to Montreal during the Second World War . In Montreal he passed his bachelor's degree in 1946 and his master's degree in history at McGill University in 1948 . Immediately thereafter, he returned to work for the ILO, which resided in Geneva, most recently as director of the International Institute for Labor Matters, which is part of the ILO . In Geneva, Cox also taught from 1964 as a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies . After differences of opinion about decision-making in international organizations, for which he had prepared a publication, he left the ILO and Geneva. From 1972 to 1977 he taught as a professor at Columbia University in New York City , and from 1977 until his retirement in 1992 at York University in Toronto .

In 2016, Cox was named a member of the Order of Canada .

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Approaches to world order . CUP, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-466512 (with Timothy J. Sinclair ).
  • Production, Power, and World Order. Social forces in the making of history . University Press, New York 1987, ISBN 0-231-05808-X (Power and Production; 1).
  • Labor and Hegemony . In: International Organization . Volume 31 (1977), No. 3, pp. 187-223.
  • Labor and transnational relations . In: International Organization , Vol. 25 (1971), Issue 3.
  • Aproaches to a futurology of industrial relations . In: International Institute for Labor Studies, Bulletin 1971 No. 8, 139-164.
  • The political economy of a plural world. Critical reflections on power, morals and civilization . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-25290-3 (together with Michael G. Schechter).
  • World order and hegemony. Basics of "International Economy" . FEG, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-8185-0272-2 .
as editor
  • The new realism. Perspectives on multilateralism and world order . UN Press, Tokyo 1997, ISBN 0-312-16234-0 .

literature

  • Anthony Leysens: The critical theory of Robert W. Cox. Fugitive or guru? . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-22479-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Neo-Gramscianische Perspektiven . In: Siegfried Schieder , Manuela Spindler (ed.), Theories of International Relations. 3rd edition, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen 2010, pp. 371–398, here p. 373.
  2. ↑ Biographical information is based on the entry on Robert W. Cox in the person lexicon of international relations virtual (PIBv), edited by Ulrich Menzel , Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  3. ↑ Robert W. Cox, Harold K. Jacobson, and others: The Anatomy of Influence. Decision making in international organizations . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1973
  4. ^ Robert Cox Invested into the Order of Canada , The Governor General of Canada, November 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Cox, Robert W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH October 2018