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.
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.
In his academic career, Cox is known for his fierce independence and unwavering challenge of orthodoxy, as well as for his historical approach.
While his initial scholarly contributions during his time at Columbia University were quite conventional and focused on international organizations, following from his experience in the ILO, he soon adopted a more radical perspective.