Articles by Peter Gowan
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The Ways of the World
NLR 59, September-October 2009, pp. 51-70in
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
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.
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Crisis in the Heartland
NLR 55, January-February 2009, pp. 5-29in
Subjects: United States , World Economy and Globalization , Economic Policy
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.
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Twilight of the NPT?
NLR 52, July-August 2008, pp. 69-80in
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , War and Peace , International Relations
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?
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A Radical Realist
NLR 41, September-October 2006, pp. 127-137in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
Peter Gowan on Christopher Layne, Peace of Illusions. A maverick mole inside realist international-relations theory, overturning orthodox accounts of US global strategy.
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Pax Europæa
NLR 34, July-August 2005, pp. 134-142in
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
Peter Gowan on Mark Leonard, Why Europe will Run the 21st Century. Panglossian manifesto for a Blairite Europeanism as model for the new Atlanticist world order.
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American Lebensraum
NLR 30, November-December 2004, pp. 155-164in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
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.
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US : UN
NLR 24, November-December 2003, pp. 5-28in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
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.
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Instruments of Empire
NLR 21, May-June 2003, pp. 147-153in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
Peter Gowan on Andrew Bacevich, American Empire. A clear-eyed colonel examines the swords and deeds of the us state in the post-Cold War world.
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A Calculus of Power
NLR 16, July-August 2002, pp. 47-67in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
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.
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After America?
NLR 13, January-February 2002, pp. 136-145in
Subjects: United States , World Economy and Globalization , International Relations
Peter Gowan on Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver: Chaos and World Governance. Plotting the different axes of any international hegemony, and the prospects for American supremacy in the new century.
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Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism
NLR 11, September-October 2001, pp. 79-93in
Subjects: United States , World Economy and Globalization , International Relations
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?
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The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism
NLR 8, March-April 2001, pp. 150-157in
Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
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.
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A Spanish Singleton
NLR 6, November-December 2000, pp. 144-149in
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Spain
Peter Gowan on Jeffrey Johnson, ed., Selected Works of Juan Donoso Cortés. The prophetic insights of Spain’s saturnine master of anti-socialist statecraft, halfway through the nineteenth century.
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The NATO Powers and the Balkan Tragedy
NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 83-105in
Subjects: United States , War and Peace , Balkans
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Eastern Europe, Western Power and Neo-Liberalism
NLR I/216, March-April 1996, pp. 129-140in
Subjects: Economic Theory , Political Theory and Strategy , Europe , World Economy and Globalization
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The Gulf War, Iraq and Western Liberalism
NLR I/187, May-June 1991, pp. 29-70in
Subjects: Arab World , Political Theory and Strategy , War and Peace , Iraq
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The Origins of the Administrative Elite
NLR I/162, March-April 1987, pp. 4-34in
Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography
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