Peter Gowan
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Peter Gowan 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
and was one of the founders of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.
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. 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.
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
at London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan University , located in London, England, was formed on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of the University of North London and the London Guildhall University . The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington.The University operates its...
, activist, published author and public speaker. He was a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review
New Left Review
New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
and was one of the founders of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.
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
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
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Gowan was diagnosed with his fatal illness only a couple of weeks after the onset of the world financial crisis. 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
Asbestos
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used commercially for their desirable physical properties. They all have in common their eponymous, asbestiform habit: long, thin fibrous crystals...
related disease, peritoneal mesothelioma
Peritoneal mesothelioma
Peritoneal mesothelioma is the name given to the cancer that attacks the lining of the abdomen. This type of cancer affects the lining that protects the contents of the abdomen and which also provides a lubricating fluid to enable the organs to move and work properly.The peritoneum is made of two...
on 12 June 2009.
Books
- The Twisted Road to Kosovo (Manifest, Stockholm, 2000)
- The Global Gamble (Verso, 1999)
Articles
- 'Crisis in the Heartland' in New Left Review, 55, January-February 2009
- 'Peter Gowan and the Capitalist World Empire' (text by Peter Gowan plus additional comments by four other contributors) in Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol 10, No. 2, pp. 471-539 (Summer 2004).
- 'American Lebensraum' in New Left Review, 30, November-December 2004
- 'Europe and the New Imperialism' in Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, No 75'76, pp. 113-141, (Summer-Autumn 2004)
- ‘Triumphing to International Disaster: The Impasse of American Grand Strategy’ in Critical Asian Studies Volume 36, No. 1 (2004)
- ‘The Concept of Empire Today’ in Temas, Cultura, Ideologia, Sociedad, Numero 34, 2004 (Cuba, 2004)
- ‘An Empire as "Superstructure"’ in Security Dialogue, 35, 2, June 2004 (International Peace Research Institute Oslo, 2004)
- 'US:UN’ in New Left Review, 24, November-December 2003
- ‘U.S. hegemony today’ in Monthly Review, July-August, 2003
- ‘Cooperation and Conflict in Transatlantic Relations After the Cold War’, in Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 5, No.2, 2003.
- ‘Instruments of Empire’ in New Left Review 21, May-June 2003.
- ‘After Kosovo: Unanswered Questions’ in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Winter edn., 2002
- ‘A Calculus of Power’ in New Left Review, 16, July-August, 2002
- ‘After America?’ in New Left Review 13, Jan-Feb, 2002
- ‘Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of Globalisation and US Global Power’ in New Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2001
Chapters in books
- 'US Hegemeny Today' in Bellamy Foster, J., and Mcchesney R.W. (eds) 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.) Fighting Identities. Race, Religion and Ethno-Nationalism (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)
- ‘British Euro-Solipsism’ in P. Gowan, P. Anderson (eds) The Question of Europe (Verso, 1997).
- ‘The Post-Communist socialists in Eastern and Cenral Europe’ in D. Sassoon (ed) Looking Left: European Socialism After the Cold War (I.b. Tauris, 1997).
External links
- Peter Gowan - The Ways of the World Interview with Mike Newman and Marko Bojcun, New Left Review 59, September-October 2009
- Misha Glenny Obituary, The Guardian, 17 June 2009
- International Viewpoint obituary
- London Metropolitan University obituary
- Transnational Institute - Peter Gowan: In Memoriam
- Marx Site - An Appreciation