Peter Gowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 873456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Gowan |
| SIGNATURE | GOWAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ways of the World
Crisis in the Heartland
Against mainstream accounts, Peter Gowan argues that the origins of the global financial crisis lie in the dynamics of the New Wall Street System that has emerged since the 1980s. Contours of the Atlantic model, and implications—geopolitical, ideological, economic—of its blow-out
The Ways of the World
In an interview recorded earlier this year, Peter Gowan recalls his political and intellectual trajectory, from the end of empires to Marxist militancy, from Eastern Bloc shipyards to the rise of the Dollar–Wall Street Regime
Crise no centro
Twilight of the NPT
Responding to Dombey, Peter Gowan asks why such an unequal treaty has attracted so many adherents—and why its superpower beneficiary has sought to undermine it. Do impasses around the NPT signal failures for US dominance
A Radical Realist
Pax Europæa
Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World Systems Theory
This paper focuses upon one small region of World-Systems Theory (wst) but one that is important for analysis of the contemporary world: the dynamics of intra-core relations.I will try to address three questions: 1. Does the wst theory of the historically cyclical patterns of intra-core relations provide us with a persuasive framework for understanding contemporary core dynamics? 2. More specifically can the reach and depth of the power of the Un…
Empire as Superstructure
American Lebensraum
Peter Gowan on Neil Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. The neglected career of a key thinker of American expansionism, and his scenarios for a world order after the age of European imperial dominance
Instruments of Empire
Us
The American origins of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and the duality of US usages and conceptions of it ever since: from the Cold War through the collapse of the USSR to today’s war on terror and occupation of Mesopotamia
U.S. Hegemony Today
American hegemony since 1945has been structurally different in its degree and type of dominance from that of any other power in the history of capitalism. Instead of simply being the biggest power with the biggest capitalism among a number of great powers, the United States was able to exercise political dominance over the entire capitalist core. Before 1945 different capitalist centers had geographically different zones of political and economic…
Cooperation and Conflict in Transatlantic Relations After the Cold War
In the 1990s there was a widespread view that there was a deep, organic transatlantic unity. This view was one-sided, too focused on economic flows and common ideological themes. And it encouraged a misleading perspective on the Bush administration’s strategy as being the product of a narrow political coalition on the American right. It is necessary to note how the collapse of the Soviet bloc created a structural crisis of the Atlantic political …
After America
A Calculus of Power
John Mearsheimer’s Tragedy of Great Power Politics disdains liberal-imperial rhetoric for a tough-minded theory of ‘offensive realism’. Peter Gowan argues that, whatever its merits, the behaviour of states in the international system cannot be dissociated from the internal dynamics of the political orders they protect
Kosovo
2002). 'Kosovo: Unanswered questions' Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 91-94
Le gouvernement du monde par l'Amérique a-t-il un avenir
Part 1 questions widespread beliefs that globalisation has ended national capitalisms or has overcome the classical contradiction between the national and international within capitalism. It argues that current efforts to pacify this contradiction in a strongly institutionalised set ofglobal markets are fragile and that political struggle between capitalist states still plays an important role in international economics. Part 2 argues that the bi…
The State, Globalisation and the New Imperialism
Explaining the American Boom
(2001). Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of 'Globalisation' and United States Global Power. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 359-374
The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism
Peter Gowan on Richard Tuck, Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant. The origins of ‘liberal’ interventionism by the NATO powers today in the doctrines of colonial retribution and expropriation of the seventeenth century
Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism
A reigning doctrine of international relations proclaims that, despite everything, the world is entering a new epoch of hopeful cosmopolitanism—narrow state sovereignty being overcome by the common and, where necessary, armed resolve of a ‘Pacific Union’ of democratic nations. What then of the asymmetric hegemony of the United States
A Spanish Singleton
Le régime Dollar-Wall Street d'hégémonie mondiale
The Nato Powers and the Balkan Tragedy
Western powers usually legitimize military interventions in terms of a proclaimed commitment to some universalist norm or to some goal embodying such a norm. These declared goals can oscillate, but they are important because a central element of their foreign policy, particularly when it involves starting a war
The State, Globalisation and the New Imperialism
Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World Systems Theory
This paper focuses upon one small region of World-Systems Theory (wst) but one that is important for analysis of the contemporary world: the dynamics of intra-core relations.I will try to address three questions: 1. Does the wst theory of the historically cyclical patterns of intra-core relations provide us with a persuasive framework for understanding contemporary core dynamics? 2. More specifically can the reach and depth of the power of the Un…
U.S. Hegemony Today
American hegemony since 1945has been structurally different in its degree and type of dominance from that of any other power in the history of capitalism. Instead of simply being the biggest power with the biggest capitalism among a number of great powers, the United States was able to exercise political dominance over the entire capitalist core. Before 1945 different capitalist centers had geographically different zones of political and economic…
Explaining the American Boom
(2001). Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of 'Globalisation' and United States Global Power. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 359-374
Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe’s market for policy ideas, suddenly opened in 1989, was swiftly captured by an Anglo-American product with a liberal brand name. This policy equivalent of fast food erected barriers to other new entrants and established a virtual monopoly on advice in most target states in the region
A Calculus of Power
John Mearsheimer’s Tragedy of Great Power Politics disdains liberal-imperial rhetoric for a tough-minded theory of ‘offensive realism’. Peter Gowan argues that, whatever its merits, the behaviour of states in the international system cannot be dissociated from the internal dynamics of the political orders they protect
Eastern Europe, Western Power and Neo-Liberalism
John Lloyd’s article is helpful, above all, in revealing more fully his forms of thought. He appears to think my article was a piece of Marxist economics. Unfortunately it was entirely pre-theoretical: an attempt to introduce the claims of neo-liberals like Lloyd to some pertinent facts, with the
The return of carl schmitt
The Origins of the Administrative Elite
A quarter of a century ago, Perry Anderson wrote a path-breaking article challenging the framework that historians had established for explaining, among other things, political change in 19th-century Britain. His analyses at that time, along with the work of Tom Nairn, have received reinforcement from subsequent research and
Western Economic Diplomacy and the New Eastern Europe
Hobbes once remarked that if you are forced at gunpoint to go through a door, you are still free to go through it: you can be forced and be free. For most of us today this is a perversity that smacks of Stalinism. But what if someone throws
The Gulf War, Iraq and Western Liberalism
The states of the North Atlantic have, since the days of Palmerston, frequently hoisted the flag of liberalism on their way to war. But rarely since 1945 have the principles of right, law and justice been invoked as strongly as in the call to arms for Desert Storm
The return of carl schmitt
Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe’s market for policy ideas, suddenly opened in 1989, was swiftly captured by an Anglo-American product with a liberal brand name. This policy equivalent of fast food erected barriers to other new entrants and established a virtual monopoly on advice in most target states in the region
Eastern Europe, Western Power and Neo-Liberalism
John Lloyd’s article is helpful, above all, in revealing more fully his forms of thought. He appears to think my article was a piece of Marxist economics. Unfortunately it was entirely pre-theoretical: an attempt to introduce the claims of neo-liberals like Lloyd to some pertinent facts, with the
Communists and Workers In Ex-Communist Europe
The return to power of ex-Communist Parties in a number of East Central and East European countries in the mid-1990s came as a shock to many in the West largely because they had failed to notice the strength of the Communist electorate in the region during the so-called revolutions of 1989-90. In all the countries of East Central Europe, the formerly ruling Communist Parties emerged from the elections in 1989-90 as the dominant parties of the Lef…
The Nato Powers and the Balkan Tragedy
Western powers usually legitimize military interventions in terms of a proclaimed commitment to some universalist norm or to some goal embodying such a norm. These declared goals can oscillate, but they are important because a central element of their foreign policy, particularly when it involves starting a war
Placing Serbia in context
1999). Placing Serbia in context. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 171-182
A Spanish Singleton
Le régime Dollar-Wall Street d'hégémonie mondiale
The State, Globalisation and the New Imperialism
Explaining the American Boom
(2001). Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of 'Globalisation' and United States Global Power. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 359-374
The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism
Peter Gowan on Richard Tuck, Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant. The origins of ‘liberal’ interventionism by the NATO powers today in the doctrines of colonial retribution and expropriation of the seventeenth century
Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism
A reigning doctrine of international relations proclaims that, despite everything, the world is entering a new epoch of hopeful cosmopolitanism—narrow state sovereignty being overcome by the common and, where necessary, armed resolve of a ‘Pacific Union’ of democratic nations. What then of the asymmetric hegemony of the United States
After America
A Calculus of Power
John Mearsheimer’s Tragedy of Great Power Politics disdains liberal-imperial rhetoric for a tough-minded theory of ‘offensive realism’. Peter Gowan argues that, whatever its merits, the behaviour of states in the international system cannot be dissociated from the internal dynamics of the political orders they protect
Kosovo
2002). 'Kosovo: Unanswered questions' Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 91-94
Le gouvernement du monde par l'Amérique a-t-il un avenir
Part 1 questions widespread beliefs that globalisation has ended national capitalisms or has overcome the classical contradiction between the national and international within capitalism. It argues that current efforts to pacify this contradiction in a strongly institutionalised set ofglobal markets are fragile and that political struggle between capitalist states still plays an important role in international economics. Part 2 argues that the bi…
Instruments of Empire
Us
The American origins of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and the duality of US usages and conceptions of it ever since: from the Cold War through the collapse of the USSR to today’s war on terror and occupation of Mesopotamia
U.S. Hegemony Today
American hegemony since 1945has been structurally different in its degree and type of dominance from that of any other power in the history of capitalism. Instead of simply being the biggest power with the biggest capitalism among a number of great powers, the United States was able to exercise political dominance over the entire capitalist core. Before 1945 different capitalist centers had geographically different zones of political and economic…
Cooperation and Conflict in Transatlantic Relations After the Cold War
In the 1990s there was a widespread view that there was a deep, organic transatlantic unity. This view was one-sided, too focused on economic flows and common ideological themes. And it encouraged a misleading perspective on the Bush administration’s strategy as being the product of a narrow political coalition on the American right. It is necessary to note how the collapse of the Soviet bloc created a structural crisis of the Atlantic political …
Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World Systems Theory
This paper focuses upon one small region of World-Systems Theory (wst) but one that is important for analysis of the contemporary world: the dynamics of intra-core relations.I will try to address three questions: 1. Does the wst theory of the historically cyclical patterns of intra-core relations provide us with a persuasive framework for understanding contemporary core dynamics? 2. More specifically can the reach and depth of the power of the Un…
Empire as Superstructure
Political science (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (5 works) · History (5 works) · World Systems and Global Transformations (5 works)