Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Office Address:
Department of Political Science
Florida International University
University Park Campus, DM488B
Miami,  FL  33199
Phone:  305-348-6429
E-Mail: coxr@fiu.edu

EDUCATION

1991 PhD, Political Science, University of Wisconsin--Madison.
1986 M.A., Political Science, University of Missouri--Columbia.
1984 B.A., Political Science, University of Missouri--Columbia.

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida International University, 1996-present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida International University, 1991-1995.

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1989-1991.

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985-1986.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball.  McFarland Press, 2006.

U.S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative Shift, co-authored with     Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Lynne Rienner, 1999.     

Edited volume, Business and the State in International Relations, Westview Press 1996.

Power and Profits: U.S. Policy in Central America, University Press of Kentucky, 1994.


ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“Transnational Capital, the US State and Latin American Trade Agreements,” forthcoming Third World Quarterly, December, 2008.

“The Emperor Has No Clothes, Again. The U.S. Intervention in Cuba and the Bias in International Relations Scholarship,” International Studies Perspectives, November 2002, Volume 3, Issue 4.

 “Baseball Competitiveness in the Free Agent Era,” co-authored with Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Nine: the Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Fall 2002, Vol. 1, No. 1.

“Corporate Coalitions and Industrial Restructuring," Competition and Change: The Journal of Global Business and Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 1995, reprinted in         Jeffry Frieden and David Lake, eds., International Political Economy: Perspectives on             Global Wealth and Power, St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS

"The Military-Industrial Complex and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Political Economy of Business    Mobilization," in Amy Ansell, Unraveling the Right, Westview Press, 2001

“Explaining Business Support for Regional Trade Agreements,” in Jeffry Frieden and David Lake, International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Wealth and Power, St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

"Private Interests and U.S. Foreign Policy in Haiti and the Caribbean Basin," in David Skidmore, ed., Contested Social Orders and International Politics, Vanderbilt University Press,            1997.

"Bringing Business Back In: The Business Conflict Approach to International Politics," in            Business and the State in International Politics, Westview Press 1996.

"Explaining Business Support for Regional Trade Agreements: The Cases of NAFTA and CBI,"  in Ronald W.Cox, ed., Business and the State in International Politics, Westview Press            1996.

"The Politics of the 1993 NAFTA Vote," co-authored with Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Current     Politics and Economics of the United States, Volume 1, No. 3, 1995.

"Clinton's Economic Initiatives," Hemisphere, Summer 1994.

"The Food Crisis in Kenya," co-authored with Taye Woldesmiate, in Birol Yeshilada and           Charles Brockett, eds., Agrarian Reform in Reverse, Westview Press, 1987.

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