From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox

ISBN-13: 9780367143121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Shannon Brincat

Opis

This book explores the work of Robert W. Cox across IR, IPE, and International Historical Sociology. Cox has been a key figure in so-called critical approaches to world politics, contributing to the inter-paradigm debate in IR, pioneering the Gramscian approach to IPE, developing key insights into international institutions, and the changing nature of capitalism and the state. This volume provides an entry-point into Cox’s work across history, theory, political economy, and civilizations, offering a way for readers to engage with Cox’s rich legacy and deploy the many insights of his thought into contemporary scholarship. This book was first published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Spis treści

Statement by Robert W. Cox  Preface: On the Legacy of Robert W. Cox Richard Falk  1. Introduction: From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox Shannon Brincat  2. Robert W. Cox’s Method of Historical Structures Redux Timothy J. Sinclair  3. The Critical Theorist’s Labour: Empirical or Philosophical Historiography for International Relations? Richard Devetak and Ryan Walter  4. Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History: Political Economy as Philosophy Randall Germain  5. Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening Randolph B. Persaud  6. Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox’s Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide Shannon Brincat  7. Framing Robert W. Cox, Framing International Relations Vendulka Kubálková  8. Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains Nicola Phillips  9. Global Governance and Universities: The Power of Ideas and Knowledge James H. Mittelman  10. ‘Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China George Karavas and Shannon Brincat  11. Rethinking about Civilizations: The Politics of Migration in a New Climate Samid Suliman

O autorze

Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.