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'''William Thornton Rickert Fox''' (1912-1988) was a former American [[foreign policy]] professor and [[international relations]] theorician at the [[Columbia University]] (1950-1980, [[emeritus]] 1980-1988).<ref>[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/william_fox.html]</ref> He is perhaps mostly known as the coiner of the term [[superpower]] in 1943. He has written several books about the foreign policy of the [[United States of America]] and the [[United Kingdom]] (and its predecessor: the [[British Empire]]). He was also a pioneer in establishing the systematic study of statecraft and war as an academic discipline.
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William Fox married Dr. [[Annette Baker Fox]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/siwps/faculty2.htm]</ref>
He obtained his Ph.D at the [[Chicago university]].<ref>[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/william_fox.html]</ref> He became in 1951 the first director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies (which was later renamed into the [[Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies]]).<ref>Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iwps/]</ref> He was also the president of the [[International Studies Association]] (ISA) in 1972-1973.<ref>http://www.isanet.org/handbook/hist.html</ref>▼
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▲He obtained his Ph.D at the [[Chicago university]].<ref>[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/william_fox.html]</ref> He became in 1951 the first director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies (which was later renamed into the [[Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies]]).<ref>Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iwps/]</ref> He was also an advisory board member of the [[Journal of International Affairs]] from 1952 until 1988<ref>http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/prevadvisory_boards.shtml</ref> and the president of the [[International Studies Association]] (ISA) in 1972-1973.<ref>http://www.isanet.org/handbook/hist.html</ref>
===Superpower===
:''Main article: [[Superpower]].
Fox coined the word "superpower" in his 1943 book ''Superpowers: the United States, Britain, and the Soviet union—their responsibility for peace'' to identify a new category of power able to occupy the highest status in a world in which, as the war then raging demonstrated, states could challenge and fight each other on a global scale. According to him, there were (at that moment) three states that were superpowers: the United States, the [[Soviet Union]], and the British Empire.
==Notable students==
*[[Kenneth Waltz]]<ref>[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Waltz/waltz-con3.html]</ref>
==Books and articles==
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