Universal Foreigner (ePub)

Robert W Cox is Professor Emeritus of political and social thought, York University, Toronto, Canada.

He is the author of Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (1987); (Ed.) The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (Macmillan for the United Nations University, 1997); and The Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical Reflections on Power, Morals and Civilization (Routledge, 2002). He has published many articles and book chapters on world order, multilateralism, international organizations, production, globalization and civilizations. His essay “Social forces, states and world order: beyond international relations theory” has been widely reproduced in various books and in Spanish, German, Japanese and Korean translations.

From 1947 until 1972, his first career was with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, in which he rose to the rank of Assistant Director-General. From 1965 to 1972, he was Director of the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies.

He left the ILO in 1972 to begin his second career as Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in New York; and in 1977 he returned to Canada as Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. York ultimately became his intellectual home. He has had visiting appointments at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva, the University of Toronto, Yale University, Université Laval in Quebec City, the University of Denver, the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, the Australian University and Tokyo University.

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