BA, Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland
MA, Kansas State University
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Cocks taught at the State University of New York at Albany where he had been instrumental in the development of the Allen Collegiate Center, an experimental interdisciplinary early-admission degree program. Dr. Cocks has taught at Mount Holyoke College, the University of East Anglia, and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a participant in the Five College Peace and World Security Studies Program in 1996; in a summer institute on Gorbachev’s domestic and foreign policies cosponsored by that program and the Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union in 1988; and a summer institute on “Regional Crises and Nuclear Weapons,” sponsored by the Institute for Security and Cooperation at the University of WisconsinMadison in 1987. He was a member of the New England Conference on Political Thought from 1980 to 1989 and of the Mellon Faculty Seminar on the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College in 1985–86. He has published articles and reviews in the journals the American Political Science Review, The Annals, International Organization, European Communities Review, and New Perspectives on Turkey. (1984–2005)