Robert W. Cox

Robert Warburton Cox CM (1926 – October 9, 2018) was a Canadian scholar of political science and a former United Nations officer. 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.D students. Following his departure from the ILO he taught at Columbia University. From 1977 to 1992 he was professor of political science at York University in Toronto, Canada. He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2014.