At LSE he helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004, along with Professor Odd Arne Westad, where they were co-directors are also Co-Editors of the London School of Economics CWSC journal, Cold War History.[1] In 2008 the Cold War Studies Centre expanded into LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based which aims to bring the academic and policy words together. In a 2014 international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2nd in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks.
In 2011, he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy (executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy) designed to teach mid-career professionals from the public, private, and NGO sectors who deal with international relations, diplomacy, security, and international business in their working lives. He is the current director of the programme. In addition, since joining the LSE Cox has also acted as academic director of both the LSE-PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School.
Professor Cox is a well-known speaker on global affairs and has lectured in the United States, Australia, Asia, and in the EU. He has spoken on a range of contemporary global issues, though most recently he has focused on the role of the United States in the international system, the rise of Asia, and whether or not the world is now in the midst of a major power shift.
Cox, M. (ed), E. H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal, 2000 (Palgrave)
Cox, M., Guelke, A., Stephen, F. (eds), Northern Ireland: A Farewell to Arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, 2000, 2005 2nd Edition (Manchester University Press)
Booth, K., Cox, M., Dunne, T. (eds), How Might We Live? Global Ethics for a New Century, 2001 (Cambridge University Press)
Booth, K., Cox, M., Dunne, T. (eds), Empires, System and States: Great Transformations in International Politics, 2001 (Cambridge University Press)
Cox, M. (ed), Twentieth Century International Relations: The international system, 1815-1945., 2006 (Sage Publications Ltd)
Cox, M., The Post Cold War World Turbulence and Change in World Politics Since the Fall, 2018, (Routledge)
Cox, M., Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden, 2022, (Bristol University Press)
Articles
Cox, M., International History since 1990, in Baylis, J., Smith, S. (eds), The Globalization of World Politics (2nd Edition), 2001 (Oxford University Press)
Cox, M., The Search for Relevance: Historical Materialism after the Cold War, in Smith, H., Rupert, M. (eds), Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays in Continuity and Change, 2002 (Routledge)
Cox, M., Meanings of Victory: American Power after the Towers, in Booth, K., Dunne, T. (eds), Worlds in Collision: The Great Terror and Global Order, 2002 (Palgrave)
Cox, M., The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History – Again, in Njølstad, O. (ed), The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation, 2004 (Frank Cass Publishers)
Cox, M., Buzan, Barry, "The End of Anglo-America?", in Tonny Brems Knudsen, Cornelia Navari (eds), Power Transition in the Anarchical Society: Rising Powers, Institutional Change and the New World Order, Springer, (2022)