Professor Michael Cox (b 1947) has held full-time university positions at The Queen's University, Belfast (1972-1995), California State University at San Diego (1986), The College of William and Mary in Virginia (1987-1988), the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth (1995-2001), ASERI at The Catholic University of Milan (2003-2015) the University of Melbourne (2004 and 2005) and LUISS School of Government Rome (2011-2016). He has also been a visiting professor at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia (2005-2009).
He was appointed to a Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2002; then Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at LSE in 2004; and finally in 2008 Co-Director, and in 2015 Director of LSE IDEAS, the world ranked Think Tank. At the LSE he has also held several positions. Amongst the most important have been: Director of the Executive Masters in Diplomacy and Strategy (an advanced course for diplomats, private sector and NGO professionals from over 25 countries); Academic Director of the LSE Summer School (2011-2014) which now attracts over 5000 students from 40 countries; Academic Convenor of the LSE-PKU Summer School ((2010-2015) which in 2015 played host to nearly 300 international students in Beijing; and Academic Consultant to LSE Enterprise (2014-2016).
In 2006 Professor Cox was also elected Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the biggest political science association in Europe and the second largest in the world. Previously, Professor Cox served on the Executive Committee of the British International Studies Association and The Irish National Committee for the Study of International Affairs. Outside of the LSE he also holds the positions of Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House and the Royal United Services Institute. Between 2001 and 2002 he was Director of the David Davies Memorial Institute for the Study of International Politics in Aberystwyth; and in 2002 he was appointed Senior Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo and has returned to the Nobel Institute in that role three times since. Between 2003 and 2011 he was Chair of the United States Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He also serves on the Experts’ Panel for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. He has, in addition, taught and is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar. He has also served as editor of several leading journals including the International Studies in International Affairs, Review of International Studies. International Relations and since 2003 the journal Cold War History. He is also General Editor for the Palgrave series, Rethinking World Politics (10 books in the series) and has been editor of its leading IR journal International Politics since 2003. The journal was awarded SSCI status under his editorship in 2010 and was recently ranked 43rd out of over 80 IR journals world-wide. He has also served on the advisory boards of several leading IR journals.
Finally, Professor Cox is a well know public speaker who has lectured world-wide on a range of contemporary international issues.
PUBLICATIONS
Professor Cox is the author, editor and co-editor of over 20 books. These include:
Il compromesso sovietico: per la critica dell'economia politica dell'URSS. Fentrinelli, 1977
eds. Planlose Wirtschaft : zum Charakter der sowjetischen Gesellschaft. Hamburg. Junius, 1981
ed. Superpowers at the Crossroads, 1990. University Press of America, 1990.
US Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Superpower Without a Mission? Pinter Press, Chatham House, 1995.
eds. The Ideas of Leon Trotsky. London, Porcupine Press, 1995.
ed. Rethinking the Soviet Collapse: Sovietology, The Death of Communism and New Russia. London, Pinter Press, 1998
eds. The Eighty Years’ Crisis: International Relations 1919-1999. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
eds. The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989–1999, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
eds, American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, Impacts, Oxford University Press, 2000.
eds A Farewell to Arms? From "Long War" to Long Peace in Northern Ireland, 1st edition, Manchester University Press, 2000.
ed. E. H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000.
eds, How Might We Live? Global Ethics for a New Century, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
eds, Empires, System and States: Great Transformations in International Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
ed, E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, 1919–1939, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001
eds, Northern Ireland: A Farewell to Arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, 2nd edition, Manchester University Press, 2005.
ed, Twentieth Century International Relations, 8 volumes Sage Publications Ltd, 2006.
eds. US Foreign Policy. New York: 1st edition Oxford University Press, 2008.
eds. Soft power and US foreign policy: theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives. London, Routledge, 2009.
eds The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
eds. Fred Halliday, John Vincent and the idea of Progress in International Relations. Special Issue, International Affairs, Volume 87, Number 5 September 2011
eds.US Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2012.
Introduction to International Relations. London, University of London Press. 2012.
eds. US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion ; From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. London, Routledge, 2013.
Forthcoming:
Foreword: ‘Carr for the 21st Century’ in Michael Cox ed. E.H.Carr, new updated edition The Twenty Years’ Crisis. 2016
US Foreign Policy, 3rd edition Oxford University Press, 2017
Rethinking the Cold War: Critical Reflections. Routledge, 2017
Below we only include publications between 2001-2015. A fuller list of his publications over this period can be accessed at LSE Research Online.
Amongst some of the more recent publications, see:
Cox Michael, E.H. Carr in Hidemi Suganami and Richard Ned Lebow eds, Return of the Theorists. Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations. London, Palgrave, 2016.
Cox, Michael in Rudolf Nureyev - Dance to Freedom online. BBC 2. Documentary. First broadcast December 19, 2015
Cox, Michael, Greece Surrendered, But The Real Defeat Was For Europe. Social Europe. 16 July 2015.
Cox, Michael, LSE – Rockefeller’s baby? LSE 120th Anniversary.
Cox, Michael (2014) Learning from History? From the Soviet Collapse to the new Cold War Cold War History, Volume 14, Number 4, November 2014, pp. 461-486
Cox, Michael (2013) Fighting for Freedom: promoting Democracy the American Way’, Harvard International Review. Spring. pp. 48-51.
Cox, Michael and Barry Buzan (2013) ‘China and the US: Comparable Cases of Peaceful Rise’ Chinese Journal of International Politics.
Cox, Michael (2013) Power and the Liberal order, in Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, eds, After Liberalism: The Future of the Liberalism in International Relations. Palgrave, Macmillan, pp. 15-32.
Cox, Michael (2013) Too Big To Fail? : The Transatlantic Relationship from Bush to Obama. Global Policy, Volume 3, 1, pp. 71-78.
Cox, Michael (2013) After the West? Towards a New International System in Geir Lundestad. International Relations Since the End of the Cold War: New and Old Dimensions. Oxford University Press, pp. 269-289.
Cox, Michael (2012) Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West. International Relations, Volume 26, No 4, pp. 369 - 383
Cox, Michael (2012) Report of the West’s demise and East’s rise are greatly exaggerated. Times Higher Education. 25 October. p.29
Cox, Michael (2011) Fred Halliday, Marxism and the Cold War. International Affairs, 8(5), pp.1107-1122.
Cox, Michael (2011) Power Shift and the Death of the West? Not Yet!. |European Political Science, 10(3), pp.416-424.
Cox, Michael (2011) The uses and abuses of history: The end of the Cold War and Soviet collapse. |International Politics, 48(4-5), pp.627-646.
Cox, Michael (2011) The United States after unipolarity: foreword IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas, ed SR009. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cox, Michael (2011) The lessons of Northern Ireland: foreword IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas, ed SR008. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cox, Michael (2011) Introduction: the transatlantic relationship- the marriage without end. European Political Science, 10 (1). 1-2. ISSN 1680-4333
Cox, Michael (2010) E.H. Carr and the Crisis of Twentieth Century Liberalism: Reflections and Lessons|. Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 38(3), pp.523-533.
Michael and Nicholas Kitchen, (2010) Obama nation?: US foreign policy one year on: driving decline?: economic crisis and the rise of China IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas, ed SR003. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cox, Michael and Kitchen, Nicholas (2009) Illusions of Empire and the spectre of decline. In: Parmar, Inderjeet and Miller, Linda B. and Ledwidge, Mark, (eds.) New directions in US foreign policy. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415777483
Cox, Michael (2009) For better for worse: how America's foreign policy became wedded to liberal universalism. In: Mac Ginty, Roger and Richmond, Oliver, (eds.) The liberal peace and post-war reconstruction: myth or reality?. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415489263
Cox, Michael (2009) Why did we get the end of the Cold War wrong? British journal of politics and international relations, 11 (2). pp. 161-176. ISSN 1369-1481
Cox, Michael (2009) To lead the world? Not any Longer. H-Diplo roundtable review, 10 (9). pp. 10-12.
Cox, Michael (2008) From the Cold War to the War on Terror: old threats, new threats and the future of the transatlantic relationship. In: Lundestad, Geir, (ed.) Just another major crisis?: the United States and Europe since 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 58-76. ISBN 9780199552030
Cox, Michael and Kitchen, Nicholas (2008) Il ritorno della storia: gli Stati Uniti e il mondo dopo Bush [The return of history: the United States and world order after Bush] Biblioteca Della Libertà, XLIII (193). ISSN 0006-1654
Cox, Michael (2008) Introduction: US foreign policy - past, present and future. In: Cox, Michael and Stokes, Doug, (eds.) US Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, U.K.. ISBN 9780199226429
Cox, Michael (2008) The USA and Asia-Pacific In: Cox, Michael and Stokes, Doug, (eds.) US Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 275 -291. ISBN 9780199226429
Cox, Michael (2008) Europe's enduring anti-Americanism. Current history, 107 (709). pp. 231-235. ISSN 0011 - 3530
Cox, Michael and Quinn, Adam (2008) Hard times for soft power: America and the Atlantic community. In: Held, David and Moore, Henrietta L., (eds.) Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK, pp. 204-214.
Cox, Michael and Allin, Dana and Eyal, Jonathan and Niblett, Robin and Webber, Mark (2008) House of Commons Defence Committee report on the future of Nato - written evidence. In: The future of Nato and European defence. The Stationery Office, London, UK.
Cox, Michael (2008) From the Cold War to the War on Terror: or why the transatlantic relationship may not be inevitable. Paradoxa, 22 (1). pp. 20-36. ISSN 1971-6311
Cox, Michael, Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War: The Debate Continues. In History Now. The journal of the Gilder Lehman Institute. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-reagan/essays/ronald-reagan-and-end-cold-war-debate-continues
Cox, Michael and Kitchen, Nick (2008) Il ritorno della storia: gli Stati Uniti e il mondo dopo Bush - the return of history: the United States and the world order after Bush. Biblioteca della libertà , XLIII (193). ISSN 0006-1654
Cox, Michael and Quinn, Adam (2008) Renovating realism. American behavioural scientist, 51 (9). pp. 1362-1369. ISSN 15523381
Cox, Michael (2008) Fear and loathing in Brussels: the political consequences of European anti-Americanism. In: Higgott, Richard and Malbasic, Ivona, (eds.) The political consequences of anti-Americanism. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415463911
Cox, Michael (2008) Who won the Cold War in Europe? a historiographical overview. In: Bozo, Frederick and Reyniers, Marie-Pierre, (eds.) Europe and the end of the Cold War: a reappraisal. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780415449038
Cox, Michael (2007) Still the American empire? Political Studies Review, 5 (1). 1-10. ISSN 1478-9299
Cox, Michael (2007) The imperial republic in an age of war: the United States from September 11 to Iraq In: Ankerson, Christopher, (ed.) Understanding Global Terror. Polity, Cambridge, UK, 57-82. ISBN 9780745634593
Cox, Michael (2007) Editor's introduction: from Waterloo to Bin Laden In: Cox, Michael, (ed.) Twentieth Century International Relations. Sage library of international relations, vol. 1. Sage Publications, London, UK, 25-35. ISBN 9780761944652
Cox, Michael and Quinn, Adam (2007) For better, for worse: how America’s foreign policy became wedded to liberal universalism Global Society, 21 (4). 499-519. ISSN 1469-798X
Cox, Michael (2007) Editor's introduction: The international relations of the past, present and future In: Cox, Michael, (ed.) Twentieth Century International Relations. Sage library of international relations, vol. 5. Sage Publications, London, UK, 23-30. ISBN 9780761944652
Cox, Michael (2007) Hans J. Morgenthau, realism and the rise and fall of the Cold War In: Williams, Michael, (ed.) Realism Reconsidered: Hans J. Morgenthau and International Relations. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 166-194. ISBN 9780199288618
Cox, Michael, ed (2007) Twentieth century international relations: the international system, 1815-1945 Sage library of international relations, vol. 1. Sage, London. ISBN 9781412910187
Cox, Michael (2007) Is the United States in decline – again? International Affairs, 83 (4). 643-653. ISSN 0020-5850
Cox, Michael (2007) Another transatlantic split: American and European narratives and the end of the Cold War Cold War History, 7 (1). 121-146. ISSN 1468-2745
Cox, Michael (2006) US mid-term elections Bush alone World Today, 62 (8-9). 18-19. ISSN 0043-9134
Cox, Michael and Guelke, Adrian and Stephen, Fiona, eds (2006) Northern Ireland: a farewell to arms?: beyond the Good Friday Agreement Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719071140
Cox, Michael and Ikenberry, John and Inoguchi, Takashi, eds (2006) American democracy promotion: impulses, strategies, impacts (in Japanese) International political Japanese diplomacy series (1). Minerva Shoba Publishers, Kyoto, Japan. ISBN 4623045331
Cox, Michael (2006) Let’s argue about the West: reply to Vincent Pouliot European Journal of International Relations, 12 (1). 129-134. ISSN 1460-3713
Cox, Michael and Oliver, Tim (2006) Pax Americana through the eyes of Britannica Revista de Historia Actual, 4 (4). 45-56. ISSN 1697-3305
Cox, Michael and Oliver, Tim (2006) Pax Americana through the eyes of Britannia Revista de Historia Actual, 4 (4). 45-56. ISSN 1697-3305
Cox, Michael (2006) La “republica imperiale” rivista. Gla Stati Uniti nell’era Bush In: Armao, Fabeo and Caffarena, Anna, (eds.) Introduzione Al Mondo Nuovo. Scenari, Attori e Strategie Della Politica Internazionale. Centro Einaudi, Italy, 105-128.
Cox, Michael (2006) Crisis – what crisis?: transatlantic relations in the age of Bush In: Bono, Giovanna, (ed.) The Impact of 9/11 on European Foreign and Security Policy. Vub Press, Brussels, Belgium, 285-294. ISBN 9789054874096
Cox, Michael and Oliver, Tim (2006) Security policy in an insecure world In: Dunleavy, Patrick and Heffernan, Richard and Cowley, Philip and Hay, Colin, (eds.) Developments in British Politics 8. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 174-192. ISBN 9781403948427
Cox, Michael (2006) Rethinking the international and Northern Ireland: a defence In: Cox, Michael and Guelke, Adrian and Stephen, Fiona, (eds.) A Farewell to Arms?: Beyond the Good Friday Agreement. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 427-442. ISBN 9780719071140
Cox, Michael (2006) The imperial republic revisited: the United States in the era of Bush In: Colas, Alejandro and Saull, Richard, (eds.) The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' After the Cold War. Routledge, London, UK, 114-130. ISBN 9780415354257
Cox, Michael (2006) Il ‘nuovo’ impero Americano. Verso una teoria della dottrina Bush In: Parsi, Vittorio E. and GiustI, Serena and Locatelli, Andrea, (eds.) Ancora la Comunita Transatlantica? europa e Stati Uniti Tra Crisi e Distensione. Vita e pensiero, Italy, 65-100. ISBN 883431977
Cox, Michael and Oliver, Tim (2006) La “pax Americana” una prospettiva britanica In: Brambillo, E, Roberto and Ferrari, G., (eds.) Scenari e Visioni Per Il Xxi Secolo. ASERI, 47-66.
Cox, Michael (2006) The transatlantic crisis: the wolf is at the door European Political Science, 5 (1). 34-40. ISSN 1680-4333
Cox, Michael (2005) Beyond the West: terrors in Transatlantia European Journal of International Relations, 11 (2). 203-233. ISSN 1460-3713
Cox, Michael (2005) The American empire: past, present and future In: McDougall, Derek and Shearman, Peter, (eds.) Australian Security After 9/11: New and Old Agendas. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, 29-46. ISBN 9780754645153
Cox, Michael (2005) From the Cold War to the War on Terror In: Baylis, John and Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia, (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 131-157. ISBN 0199271186
Cox, Michael (2005) Empire by denial: the strange case of the United States International Affairs, 81 (1). 15-30. ISSN 0020-5850
Cox, Michael and Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline (2005) The tragedy of American diplomacy? Rethinking the Marshall Plan Journal of Cold War Studies, 7 (1). 97-134. ISSN 1531-3298
Cox, Michael, 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, Michael., A New American Empire, in Held, D., Koenig-Archibugi, M. (eds), American Power in the 21st Century, 2004, (Polity Press)
Cox, Michael (2004) Empire, imperialism and the Bush doctrine Review of International Studies, 30 (4). 585-608. ISSN 1469-9044
Cox, Michael, America and the World. In Singh, R, Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy, 2003 (Oxford University Press)
Cox, Michael, American Power before and after 11 September, in Singh, R., Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy, 2003 (Oxford University Press)
Cox, Michael (2003) Kagan's world International Affairs, 79 (3). 523-532. ISSN 0020-5850
Cox, Michael (2003) Europe and the new American challenge after September 11: crisis - what crisis? Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 1 (1). 37-55. ISSN 1479-4012
Cox, Michael (2003) The empire's back in town: or America's imperial temptation again Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32 (1). 1-27. ISSN 0305-8298
Cox, Michael, 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, Michael and Hurst, Steven (2002) 'His finest hour?' George Bush and the diplomacy of German unification Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13 (4). 123-150. ISSN 0959-2296
Cox, Michael (2002) "A failed crusade?": the United States and post-communist Russia In: Lane, David, (ed.) The Legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Boulder, USA, 225-240. ISBN 9780742517929
Cox, Michael (2002) American power before and after 11 September: dizzy with success?International Affairs, 78 (2). 261-276. ISSN 0020-5850
Cox, Michael (2002) September 11th and US hegemony: or will the 21st century be American too? International Studies Perspectives, 3 (1). 53-70. ISSN 1528-3577
Cox, Michael., 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, Michael, 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, Michael ."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, Michael (2002) Introduction: Empires, system and states: great transformations in international politics In: Cox, Michael and Dunne, Tim and Booth, Ken, (eds.) Empires, System and States: Great Transformations in International Politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1-16. ISBN 9780521016865
Cox, Michael (2001) The new liberal empire: US power in the twenty-first century Irish Studies in International Affairs, 12. 39-56. ISSN 0332-1460
Cox, Michael (2001) Whatever happened to American decline? International relations and the new United States hegemony New Political Economy, 6 (3). 311-340. ISSN 1356-3467
Cox, Michael, International History since 1990, in Baylis, J., Smith, S. (eds), The Globalization of World Politics (2nd Edition), 2001 (Oxford University Press)