Talk:Peter Gowan

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Peter Gowan was a very active public speaker on economics and international relations. He has recently passed away and there have been a large number of obituaries published, including in the guardian.

There are a lot of people interested in updating his profile. I have created an initial page and will circulate to his friends, family and ex-colleagues to provide more detail on his work and why he was important.

I am his eldest son, Ivan Gowan.

I am sorry about your father but this article does not meet Wikipedia notability requirements. Death does not make someone who was not previously notable during their lifetime as notable unless the death itself was notable. ie a soldier who saves 10 lives and loses his own and is awarded the Medal of Honor. Also, it is highly discouraged for you to edit articles you have an affiliation to such as your father because it is hard to maintain a nuetral point of view. On a personal note, you don't need Wikipedia to save your Dad's memory in history. His memory will always live on in your family and in those he touched.--TParis00ap (talk) 22:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

This is not intended to be a sentimental memory of his work. I have now updated the content considerably with lists of some of his works and links to the obituaries which have been written. Please review some of their content before making any decisions.

Tariq Ali commented that 'it is criminal that he doesn't have a wikipedia page already!'. Peter was a close colleague and friend of Tariq's and was very influencial within the radical political left in the UK and beyond. Tariq and other published authors intend to update this page with additional factual material.

Peter established the MA in International Relations at the MET and was one of the most well known published authors in the English language on Marxist theory and was a very senior member of the IMG (International Marxist Group).

Obituaries are not editted and notable references. Also, it seems with the additional work, you still do not meet Wikipedia:Author#Creative_professionals for notability, you're going to have to provide references that are verifiable. The work must be notable in it's field. If you can show independant reviews where the work was used as a referenced or important, that would work. Also, you're going to have to verify the work as his. Somehow your going to have to show that he participated or authored those novels. As far as the books he single-authored, this can be done by citing the book on Amazon or Borders ect. For the articles he participated in that were editted, you can cite the article where he is given credit.

You are still violating conflict of interest though and so would his colleagues if they editted the article. Not that it must be done by an outsider, but you're going to have to strictly maintain a nuetral point of view if you want to avoid the article being deleted.--TParis00ap (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Adding my third party opinion that this individual passes WP:PROF, though there is a conflict of interest present. I recommend editing to assure a npov rather than speedy deletion. -Falcon8765 (talk) 00:58, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this should be a AfD instead of a speedy delete.--TParis00ap (talk) 02:04, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I removed the speedy. Major paper (Like the Guardian) obits are excellent WP:RS's and very strong indications of notability, 99+% decisive in WP:AFD deletion debates, and he would pretty clearly pass under WP:PROF too. WP:COI is best dealt with by editing, not deletion, and there is little inappropriate COI material here. We would be very happy to have eminent people like Tariq Ali (inspiration of both Rolling Stones and John Lennon songs :-) ) contributing. Any inappropriate COI material would be easily dealt with, and IMHO not likely to be a real problem in the first place, as Gowan is clearly notable, with plenty of sources and material about him. John Z (talk) 07:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

As an aside, most consider that being a full prof at a real university is enough to avoid a speedy, prodding is much better. However, the original version did not make this too clear and was too discursive and cryptic.John Z (talk) 08:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

List of Significant Peter Gowan works which can be included and cited in the article

Books

• 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)

Articles

• Friedrich Von Hayek and the Construction of a Neoliberal Europe in ContreTemps, No. 4, Feb 2011
• 'Crisis in the Heartland' in New Left Review, 55, January–February 2009
• 'Twilight of the NPT?' in New Left Review, 52, July–August 2008
• 'War in the Contest for a New World Order' (unpublished paper 2007)
• 'A Radical Realist' in New Left Review, 41, September–October 2006
• 'America, Capitalism, and the Interstate System' in Critical Asian Studies Volume 37, No. 3 (2005)
• A Salutary Shock for Bien Pensant Europe in Radical Philosophy, 133, September/October 2005
• 'PAX EUROPÆA' in New Left Review, 34, July–August 2005
• 'Economics and Politics within the Capitalist Core and the Debate on the New Imperialism' (unpublished paper 2005)
• '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 towards International Disaster: The Impasse in 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
• ‘US 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.
• 'The New American Century?' in The Spokesman No. 76 (2002)
• '11 September, American Grand Strategy and World Politics' in Recherches Internationales, no. 66, (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
• 'Book review - The Global Political Economy and Post-1989 Change' in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 96, No. 2 June 2002
• ‘After America?’ in New Left Review, 13, January–February 2002
• 'American Global Government: Will It Work?' (french version) in Current Marx, 2002
• 'Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism' in New Left Review, 11, September–October 2001
• 'The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism' in New Left Review, 8, March–April 2001
• ‘Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of Globalisation and US Global Power’ in New Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2001
• 'The New Liberal Cosmopolitanism' IWM Working Paper, No. 2/2000: Vienna
• 'A Spanish Singleton' in New Left Review, 6, November–December 2000
• 'Placing Serbia in Context' in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Volume 1, Issue 2, November 1999
• 'The Twilight of the European Project' in CounterPunch, June 1999
• 'The NATO Powers and the Balkan Tragedy' in New Left Review, I/234, March–April 1999
• 'Communists and Workers in Ex-Communist Europe' in Monthly Review, May, 1998
• 'EU Eastwards Enlargement: the Uncertainties Remain' in Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, No. 59, 1998
• 'The Dynamics of European Enlargement' in Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, No. 56, 1997
• 'Eastern Europe, Western Power and Neo-Liberalism' in New Left Review, I/216, March–April 1996
• 'Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe' in New Left Review, I/213, September–October 1995
• 'The Return of Carl Schmitt' in Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Vol 2, Issue 1, 1994
• 'Old Medicine, New Bottles: Western Policy Toward East Central Europe' in World Policy Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter, 1991/1992
• 'The Gulf War, Iraq and Western Liberalism' in New Left Review, I/187, May–June 1991
• 'Western Economic Diplomacy and the New Eastern Europe' in New Left Review, I/182, July–August 1990
• 'The Origins of the Administrative Elite' in New Left Review, I/162, March–April 1987
• 'The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism' in New Left Review, I/139, May–June 1983 (writing as Oliver MacDonald)
• 'The Third Round In Poland' in New Left Review, I/101-102, January–April 1977 (writing as Peter Green)

Chapters in books

• '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)

Interviews and discussions

• Peter Gowan - The Ways of the World Interview with Mike Newman and Marko Bojcun, New Left Review 59, September–October 2009
• Peter Gowan on U.S. financial crisis Interview with This is Hell! (start at 3.00.15), 2009
• Peter Gowan on U.S. foreign policy since 1945 Interview with Against the Grain, 2009
• Turbulence in the Imperial Dollar system, speech, October 2007
• Universidad Nómada 2007 Conference, Peter Gowan Talks [1] [2][3]
• The Abduction of Europa Interview with Minerva, February 2006
• America’s Global Gamble Interview with International Viewpoint, April 2002
• The State, Globalisation and the New Imperialism: A Roundtable Discussion, July 2001
• Russia and Chechnya, Interview with Democracy Now, January 2000
• Which class rules in the USSR? A debate on the character of the Soviet Union, August 1989 (as Oliver MacDonald)

External links

• 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