The University of Oklahoma
School of International and Area Studies

Robert Henry Cox

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Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions

Itinera Institute

European Union Center

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Hester Hall 116
729 Elm Ave.
Norman, OK 73019

tel: +1 405 325 1584
fax: +1 405 325 7738
rhcox@ou.edu

Robert Henry Cox currently serves as the first Director of the School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma .   He also serves as Co-Editor for the journal Governance, which is rated second of twenty-six journals in the field of public administration.

On the OU faculty since 1989, Cox is an Associate Professor in the School of International and Area Studies. His education includes a B.Phil. from Miami University, an M.A. in West European Studies from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Political Science also from Indiana University.

Professor Cox teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels in comparative politics, specifically focusing on European Politics. In recent years he has developed classes that examine processes of globalization.

Professor Cox's research focuses on the development and evolution of welfare states in advanced industrialized countries. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests, his writings on the welfare state have explored the moral foundations of welfare programs, the politics of policy change, and the technical details of systems of taxation and social insurance. His publications have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Social Policy, Publius, and many other academic journals. His first book is The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlements.

Cox is President and member of the Board of Directors for the United Nations Association of the United States , Oklahoma City Chapter.  He is also a member of the Board of Experts for the Itinera Institute, a public policy think-tank based in Brussels, Belgium. In addition, he has been honored as a Fulbright scholar to Denmark (1995), a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1996), German Marshall Foundation Research Fellow (1998), and an invited guest to the European Union Visitors Programme (1999). He also has been the Co-Director of OU's European Union Center and the Co-Director of a Department of Education grant for Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL).