Dr Cox's principal research and teaching areas are Australian and U.S. political history and foreign policy, globalization and nationalism, comparative politics and political theory. He has recently completed a book, Nationalism: Themes, Theories and Controversies (Palgrave, 2020), and has published various articles on nationalism, globalization and US-Australia relations. Most recently, his research has focused on politics and collective emotions. Dr Cox is interested in supervising post-graduate students working on aspects of Australian, U.S. and New Zealand political history, globalization and nationalism, US foreign relations, and politics and emotions.