Michael Cox (academic)

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Michael Cox
Academic work
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
Doctoral studentsFelix Berenskötter
Main interests
  • International relations
  • Diplomacy
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Cold War History

Michael E. Cox (born 1947) is a British academic and

HEC School of Management
.

Background

Cox was educated at the

Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies
in Canberra, Australia, between 2003 and 2004. In 2003, he became a chair at the London School of Economics.

At LSE he helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004, along with Professor Odd Arne Westad, where they were co-directors are also Co-Editors of the London School of Economics CWSC journal, Cold War History.[1] In 2008 the Cold War Studies Centre expanded into LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based which aims to bring the academic and policy words together. In a 2014 international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2nd in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks.

In 2011, he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy (executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy) designed to teach mid-career professionals from the public, private, and NGO sectors who deal with international relations, diplomacy, security, and international business in their working lives. He is the current director of the programme. In addition, since joining the LSE Cox has also acted as academic director of both the LSE-PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School.

Work

As a writer, Cox has authored many books on international politics, the

US foreign policy and the behaviour of superpowers. He has contributed to many academic journals and has been the editor of the Review of International Studies, International Relations and International Politics. He is also the General Editor of Rethinking World Politics, a Palgrave book series.[1]
and Routledge's Cold War History.

Professor Cox is a well-known speaker on global affairs and has lectured in the United States, Australia, Asia, and in the EU. He has spoken on a range of contemporary global issues, though most recently he has focused on the role of the United States in the international system, the rise of Asia, and whether or not the world is now in the midst of a major power shift.

Positions held

Cox has been a member of the executive committee of the

Royal Institute of International Affairs. He became a member of the board of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations in 2003. He held the Publications portfolio on the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) before being elected chair of the ECPR, the biggest political science association in Europe and the second largest in the world, in 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Michael Cox's LSE IDEAS Biography

Bibliography

  • Cox, M.,
    Paul H. Nitze on National Security and Arms Control: Superpowers at the Crossroads, 1990 (White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs
    )
  • Cox, M., US Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Superpower Without a Mission?, 1995 (Chatham House Papers)
  • Booth, K., Cox, M., Dunne, T. (eds), The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989–1999, 1999 (Cambridge University Press)
  • Cox, M., Ikenberry, G. J., Inoguchi, T. (eds), American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, Impacts, 2000 (Oxford University Press)
  • Cox, M., Guelke, A., Stephen, F. (eds), A Farewell to Arms? From "Long War" to Long Peace in Northern Ireland, 2000 (Manchester University Press)
  • Cox, M. (ed), E. H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal, 2000 (Palgrave)
  • Booth, K., Cox, M., Dunne, T. (eds), How Might We Live? Global Ethics for a New Century, 2001 (Cambridge University Press)
  • Booth, K., Cox, M., Dunne, T. (eds), Empires, System and States: Great Transformations in International Politics, 2001 (Cambridge University Press)
  • Cox, M. (ed), E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, 1919–1939, 2001 (Palgrave)
  • Cox, M., International History since 1990, in Baylis, J., Smith, S. (eds), The Globalization of World Politics (2nd Edition), 2001 (Oxford University Press)
  • Cox, M., The Search for Relevance: Historical Materialism after the Cold War, in Smith, H., Rupert, M. (eds), Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays in Continuity and Change, 2002 (Routledge)
  • Cox, M., The Continuing Story of Another Death Foretold: Radical Theory and the New International Relations, in Breacher, M., Harvey, F. P. (eds), Millennial Reflections on International Relations, 2002 (University of Michigan Press)
  • Cox, M., Meanings of Victory: American Power after the Towers, in Booth, K., Dunne, T. (eds), Worlds in Collision: The Great Terror and Global Order, 2002 (Palgrave)
  • Cox, M., "A Failed Crusade?" The United States and Post-Communist Russia, in Lane, D. (ed), The Legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation, 2002 (Rowman & Littlefield)
  • Cox, M., America and the World, in Singh, R., Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy, 2003 (Oxford University Press)
  • Cox, M., American Power before and after 11 September, in Singh, R., Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy, 2003 (Oxford University Press)
  • Cox, M., The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History – Again, in Njølstad, O. (ed), The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation, 2004 (Frank Cass Publishers)
  • Cox, M., A New American Empire, in Held, D., Koenig-Archibugi, M. (eds), American Power in the 21st Century, 2004, (Polity Press)
  • Cox, M., Guelke, A., Stephen, F. (eds), Northern Ireland: A Farewell to Arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, 2005 (Manchester University Press)
  • Cox, M., America at War: US Foreign Policy After 11 September, 2005 (Blackwell Publishing)
  • Cox, M. (ed), Twentieth Century International Relations, 2006 (Sage Publications Ltd)
  • Cox, Michael and Doug Stokes, eds. US Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Cox, M., Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West?, 2012 (International Relations, 26, 4)

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