Peter Gowan
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Peter Gowan | |
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Born | Glasgow, UK | 15 January 1946
Died | 12 June 2009 | (aged 63)
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Southampton University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | London Metropolitan University |
Main interests | International relations |
Peter Gowan (15 January 1946, Glasgow – 12 June 2009) was a Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University, activist, published author and public speaker. He was a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review[1] and was one of the founders of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.[2]
With his older sister and his mother he moved to Belfast in April 1946 and lived there until he was nine. He never knew his father.
He went to school at Princess Gardens in Belfast until he was seven and then to Brackenburgh House. When he was nine his mother moved to London to work and he went to prep school in Suffolk, Orwell Park, ultimately becoming head boy. He left there to go to Haileybury and Imperial Service College, in Hertfordshire when he was 13, in 1959 and from there went on to read politics and history at Southampton University.
Gowan was diagnosed with his fatal illness only a couple of weeks after the onset of the world financial crisis [3] Despite knowing that his condition was terminal and his health fast-deteriorating, he not only bore it with good humour, but bravely continued to work to the limits of his capacity over the following months: his article "Crisis in the Heartland" for the January–February 2009 issue of New Left Review provides a succinct account of how he interpreted the origins of the financial crisis.
Peter Gowan died at age 63 from the asbestos related disease, peritoneal mesothelioma on 12 June 2009.[4]
Books[edit]
- A Calculus of Power: Grand Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (Verso 2010)
- The Search for Order: Historical Reflections on the Crisis of Grand Strategies (Verso 2008)
- The Twisted Road to Kosovo; Introduction (Manifest, Stockholm, 2000)
- The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance (Verso, 1999)
- Crisis East and West: Must it be Global Barbarism? (Spokesman Books 1997)
- The Question of Europe – Peter Gowan & Perry Anderson (eds) (Verso 1997)
- European Union Policy Towards the Visegrad States (London Metropolitan University 1996)
Chapters in books[edit]
- 'Industrial Development And International Political Conflict In Contemporary Capitalism' in Alexander Anievas (ed) Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge 2010)
- 'Crisis in the Heartland' in Martijn Konings (ed) The Great Credit Crash (Verso 2010)
- 'American Primacy and Europeanist Responses' in Nam-Kook Kim (ed) Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (Ashgate Publishing Limited 2009)
- 'Global Economy' in Michael Cox, Doug Stokes (eds) US foreign policy, (Oxford University Press, First Edition, USA 2008)
- 'World Market, State System and World Order Question' in International Conference Kapitalismus Reloaded (ed) Kapitalismus Reloaded: Controversy to Imperialism, Empire and Hegemony (VSA 2007)
- 'Placing Serbia in Context' in Vassilis K. Fouskas (ed) Politics of Conflict: A Survey (Routledge 2007)
- 'Contemporary IntraCore Relations and World-Systems Theory' in Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones (eds) Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press 2006)
- 'The Bush Turn and The Drive for Primacy' in Alejandro Colás and Richard Saull (eds) The War on Terror and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War (Routledge 2006)
- 'The Trans-Atlantic Conflict over Primacy' in Faruk Tabak (ed) Allies As Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System (Paradigm Publishers 2005)
- 'US Hegemeny Today' in Bellamy Foster, J., and Mcchesney R.W. (eds) Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (Monthly Review Press, 2004)
- ‘The Transatlantic Impasse’ in Tariq Faruk (ed) A New Era of Triadic Conflict (Georgetown University, 2004)
- ‘The New Liberal Cosmopolitanism’ in Daniele Archibugi (ed) Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003)
- ‘The American Campaign for Global Sovereignty’ in Leo Panitch & Colin Leys (eds) Socialist Register 2003: Fighting Identities (Merlin, 2002)
- ‘The EU and the East: Diversity without Unity?’ in M. Newman, S. Fella and M. Farrell (eds) European Integration, Unity and Diversity (Sage, 2002)
- ‘World System Theory and Contemporary Intra-Core Relations’ in A. Fisun and T. Zhurzhenko (eds) World-System Theory and Contemporary Global Transformations (Kharkiv University Press, 2002)
- 'The War and its Aftermath' in Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman (eds) Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto Press 2000)
- 'Making Sense of NATO's War on Yugoslavia' in Leo Panitch & Colin Leys (eds) Socialist Register 2000: Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias (Merlin, 1999)
- 'The Euro-Atlantic Origins of NATO's attack on Yugoslavia' in Tariq Ali (ed) Masters of the Universe: Nato's Balkan Crusade (Verso 2000)
- 'Passages of the Russian and Eastern Europe Left' in Leo Panitch & Colin Leys (eds) Socialist Register 1998: Communist Manifesto Now (Merlin, 1998)
- ‘British Euro-Solipsism’ in P. Gowan, P. Anderson (eds) The Question of Europe (Verso, 1997)
- ‘The Post-Communist Socialists in Eastern and Central Europe’ in D. Sassoon (ed) Looking Left: European Socialism After the Cold War (I.b. Tauris, 1997)
- 'Poland's Transition from State Socialism to Capitalism' in Gerd Nonneman (ed) Political and Economic Liberalization: Dynamics and Linkages in Comparative Perspective (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996)
References[edit]
- ^ "Peter Gowan, The Ways of the World, NLR 59, September–October 2009". New Left Review. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ Guzek, Martin (June 2020). "Supporting the Democratic Opposition in Eastern Europe". Labour Briefing. Translated by Holland, David. Labour Representation Committee. p. 30.
- ^ Guardian Obituary
- ^ Revolutionary History Obituary
External links[edit]
- Peter Gowan Obituary, The Guardian
- London Metropolitan University Obituary
- Transnational Institute - Peter Gowan: In Memoriam
- Peter Gowan Obituary Debatte Journal
- Death of a comrade – Peter Gowan: 1946–2009
- Marx Site - An Appreciation
- Obituary - Peter Gowan (1946-2009)
- Peter Gowan, author of The Global Gamble Obituary
- Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Editorial on Peter Gowan
- Peter Gowan, Marxism and Geopolitics by Stathis Kouvelakis
- Peter Gowan’s Theorization of the Forms and Contradictions of US Supremacy: A Critical Assessment
- An appreciation of Peter Gowan's contribution to the field of International Political Economy
- Crisis in the Heartland - Homage to Peter Gowan by Adam Tooze
- The Peter Gowan Prize