Peter Gowan | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 22/06/2019

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Peter Gowan (15 January 1946, Glasgow – 12 June 2009) 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.