Annette Baker Fox

Annette May Baker Fox (1912 – December 26, 2011) was an American international relations scholar, who spent much of her career at Columbia University's Institute of War and Peace Studies.

[6] Under the influence of the institute's director Frederick S. Dunn, she switched her area of study from public administration to international relations.

[6] It examined the post-World War II move to independence and modernization by ex-colonial states and the resulting political and economic problems and conflicts.

[3] In 1951, she became a part-time research associate at Princeton's new Center of International Studies, which was founded by a number of scholars who had left the Yale Institute.

[1] Fox looked in detail at Turkey, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and analyzed and grouped them by the kind of security problems they faced and by the fate of their foreign policies.

[13][14][15] In related published work, she examined the Cold War prospects of small states and the role that the United Nations could play with respect to them.

[17] In the words of a subsequent scholar, it made her a "pioneer" in the comparative study of Australia and Canada as middle powers.

[17] It was one of the few works outside the circle of Brazilian scholars and Latin Americanists to examine the international relations of Brazil beyond just those with the U.S.[20] In using the comparative method to do so, she used an approach that became more popular with the growth of cross-regional analyses.

"[7] Despite the level of her scholarship, Fox suffered from building an academic career as a married woman with children in the 1940s and 1950s, when such a path was not at all the norm.

[2] This program made use of a quarter-million-dollar grant from the William H. Donner Foundation for fellowships, expanded courses, and faculty exchanges.

[8] In addition to her own works, Fox served with Richard Howard as co-translators from the French for Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations, published in 1966.