Ronald W. Cox, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Political Science University Park Campus, DM488B 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Fla 33199 E-Mail: coxr@fiu.edu Phone: 305-348-6429

Education

University of Wisconsin--Madison, PhD, 1991
University of Missouri--Columbia, MA, 1986
University of Missouri--Columbia, BA, 1984

Publications

Power and Profits: US Policy in Central America, Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1994
Business and the State in International Relations, ed., Westview Press, 1996
US Politics and the Global Economy, with Skidmore-Hess, Lynne Reinner, 1999
Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball, McFarland, 2006

Research Interests

Professor Cox has written extensively in the areas of US foreign economic policy, international political economy, American foreign policy, and the political economy of baseball. His latest publication, forthcoming in Third World Quarterly, December, 2008, is entitled "Transnational Capital, the US State and Latin American Trade Agreements." He is currently working on a book manuscript, "Continuities of Empire: Business Interests and US Foreign Policy After the Cold War."

Courses Taught

American Foreign Policy
Politics of the World Economy
Seminar in American Foreign Policy
Seminar in International Political Economy