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The Critical Theory of Robert W. Cox

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230584457

ISBN: 978-1-349-30967-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 21, 2015

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Why a Book on the Critical Theory of Robert W. Cox?

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 1 –10

[The work of the Canadian historian and political economist, Robert W. Cox, goes back some thirty to fifty years (if one includes the time when he was an international civil servant at the International Labour Organisation). The value of his contribution to, specifically, the fields of...
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Influences, Context, and Theoretical Development

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 11 –33

[It is difficult to present the development of Cox’s thinking and those who have influenced him in neatly contained packages, because he has incorporated insights from a variety of sources during the process. This does not mean, however, that there is no consistency in his worldview and thinking....
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The Core Theoretical Framework and Beyond

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 35 –70

[This chapter focuses on Cox’s core theoretical framework as it is set out in the two Millennium articles (1981, 1983) and in Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (1987). It also touches on Cox’s post-1987 thinking about aspects such as the changing world...
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The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 71 –88

[The aim of this chapter is to give the reader an overview of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (CT). This is essential in order to determine whether the association of Coxian Critical Theory (CCT) with the work of the Frankfurt School theorists is an ‘honest mistake’ or entirely...
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The ‘Critical Turn’ in International Relations

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 89 –114

[This chapter focuses on how the ‘critical turn’ in IR1 developed through an analysis of the earlier work of some of the scholars who have been associated with it. Primarily, the CT in IR originated as a reaction to Waltzian neo-Realism (see Chapter 3). I deal with a sample of the work of four...
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The Legacy of Coxian Critical Theory

Leysens, Anthony

Pages: 115 –144

[This chapter returns to the questions and objectives that were set out in Chapter 1, and draws out some conclusions and implications. It will be recalled that the first problem which this book has aimed to address is the incorrect ‘placing’ and ‘linking’ of CCT. The previous two chapters focused...

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