Peter Gowan
Peter Gowan is Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University and course director of the MA in International Relations. He is a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review, on the advisory boards of other journals and is a member of the America Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
His research interests combine analysis of the contemporary external orientations of the Atlantic states and trends in international politics and IPE, with work on international relations theory. During the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s his research was mainly focused on West-East relations in Europe and on the international politics of Western Europe. Since the late 1990s he has been working on American capitalism and the external orientations of the United States as well as on transatlantic relations. He is a frequent contributor to New Left Review.
Email: p.gowan@londonmet.ac.uk
MA International Relations
MA Modern European Studies
Supervision of the following research degrees:
1997 - 1999: MPhil, Steve Barratt, 'International Relations Theories, the State and representations of a changing Europe'
The Global Gamble (Verso, 1999)
'Cartography of Power' in New Left Review (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 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 America’ in New Left Review, Jan-Feb, 2002
‘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
‘Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of Globalisation and US Global Power’ in New Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2001
‘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).
‘Globalisation: Process or Policy?’ Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, University of California Los Angeles, June,2001
‘The New Liberal Cosmopolitanism’ Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, May 2000.
His research interests combine analysis of the contemporary external orientations of the Atlantic states and trends in international politics and IPE, with work on international relations theory. During the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s his research was mainly focused on West-East relations in Europe and on the international politics of Western Europe. Since the late 1990s he has been working on American capitalism and the external orientations of the United States as well as on transatlantic relations. He is a frequent contributor to New Left Review.
Email: p.gowan@londonmet.ac.uk
Postgraduate Teaching
MA International Relations
MA Modern European Studies
Supervision of the following research degrees:
1997 - 1999: MPhil, Steve Barratt, 'International Relations Theories, the State and representations of a changing Europe'
Selected Publications
Authored Books
The Twisted Road to Kosovo (Manifest, Stockholm, 2000)The Global Gamble (Verso, 1999)
Journal Articles
'Peter Gowan and the Capitalist World Empire' (text by Peter Gowan plus additioal comments by four other contributors) in Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol 10, No. 2, pp. 471-539 (Summer 2004).'Cartography of Power' in New Left Review (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 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 America’ in New Left Review, Jan-Feb, 2002
‘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
‘Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of Globalisation and US Global Power’ in New Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2001
Chapters in Edited 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).
Occasional Papers
‘Globalisation: Process or Policy?’ Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, University of California Los Angeles, June,2001
‘The New Liberal Cosmopolitanism’ Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, May 2000.
Editing
The Question of Europe (Verso, 1997)
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