Robert w cox biography
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Robert W. Cox
Canadian political scientist and UN officer (1926–2018)
For other people with the same name, see Robert Cox.
Robert Warburton CoxCM (1926 – October 9, 2018) was a Canadian scholar of political science and a former United Nations officer.
Robert w cox biography
He was cited as one of the intellectual leaders, along with Susan Strange, of the British School of International Political Economy[1] and was still active as a scholar after his formal retirement, writing and giving occasional lectures.
He was professor emeritus of political science and social and political thought at York University.
He started work at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in 1947, eventually serving as director of their then independent International Institute for Labour Studies (1965–71).
During his directorship he was appointed Professor at the University of Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies which allowed him to hold seminars there and supervise Ph