Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.

• Statement by Robert W. Cox Preface: On the Legacy of Robert W. Cox Richard Falk 1. Introduction: From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox Shannon Brincat 2. Robert W. Cox’s Method of Historical Structures Redux Timothy J. Sinclair 3. The Critical Theorist’s Labour: Empirical or Philosophical Historiography for International Relations? Richard Devetak and Ryan Walter 4. Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History: Political Economy as Philosophy Randall Germain 5. Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening Randolph B. Persaud 6. Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox’s Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide Shannon Brincat 7. Framing Robert W. Cox, Framing International Relations Vendulka Kubálková 8. Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains Nicola Phillips 9. Global Governance and Universities: The Power of Ideas and Knowledge James H. Mittelman 10. ‘Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China George Karavas and Shannon Brincat 11. Rethinking about Civilizations: The Politics of Migration in a New Climate Samid Suliman

Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.

• Statement by Robert W. Cox Preface: On the Legacy of Robert W. Cox Richard Falk 1. Introduction: From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox Shannon Brincat 2. Robert W. Cox’s Method of Historical Structures Redux Timothy J. Sinclair 3. The Critical Theorist’s Labour: Empirical or Philosophical Historiography for International Relations? Richard Devetak and Ryan Walter 4. Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History: Political Economy as Philosophy Randall Germain 5. Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening Randolph B. Persaud 6. Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox’s Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide Shannon Brincat 7. Framing Robert W. Cox, Framing International Relations Vendulka Kubálková 8. Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains Nicola Phillips 9. Global Governance and Universities: The Power of Ideas and Knowledge James H. Mittelman 10. ‘Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China George Karavas and Shannon Brincat 11. Rethinking about Civilizations: The Politics of Migration in a New Climate Samid Suliman

Shannon Brincat is a Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Critical Theory. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.

• Statement by Robert W. Cox Preface: On the Legacy of Robert W. Cox Richard Falk 1. Introduction: From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox Shannon Brincat 2. Robert W. Cox’s Method of Historical Structures Redux Timothy J. Sinclair 3. The Critical Theorist’s Labour: Empirical or Philosophical Historiography for International Relations? Richard Devetak and Ryan Walter 4. Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History: Political Economy as Philosophy Randall Germain 5. Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening Randolph B. Persaud 6. Traditional, Problem-Solving and Critical Theory: An Analysis of Horkheimer and Cox’s Setting of the ‘Critical’ Divide Shannon Brincat 7. Framing Robert W. Cox, Framing International Relations Vendulka Kubálková 8. Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains Nicola Phillips 9. Global Governance and Universities: The Power of Ideas and Knowledge James H. Mittelman 10. ‘Behemoth Pulls the Peasant’s Plough’: Convergence and Resistance to Business Civilization in China George Karavas and Shannon Brincat 11. Rethinking about Civilizations: The Politics of Migration in a New Climate Samid Suliman