Stephen Gowans Books

The book critically examines the notion that Israel dictates U.S. foreign policy by tracing the evolution of the Jewish state. It explores its ideological foundations laid by Theodore Herzl, its establishment as a European colony, and its role in countering regional liberation movements. Additionally, it discusses Israel's development into a strategic ally of the Pentagon, providing a nuanced perspective on its historical and political context.

Summer 2021, the WHO announced that pandemic would end “when the world chooses to end it.” Though all necessary public health measures were available, it didn’t end. Those measures, used in China, New Zealand, Vietnam, and a few others, were ignored elsewhere. The virus ran riot as half measures were used when hospitals were unable to handle strain. The vaccine turned out to be more mirage than oasis. Poor- and middle-income countries meanwhile experienced a global vaccine apartheid, waiting for crumbs to fall from the rich countries’ table, as new, possibly more virulent variants, threatened to emerge. Stephen Gowans investigates why, when all the tools to avert a catastrophe were available, the world failed to prevent the Covid-19 disaster. Examining the business opportunities and pressures that helped shape the world's failed response, he concludes that the novel coronavirus, a killer, had a helper in bringing about the capitalism, the killer’s henchman. He shows how capitalism, its incentives, and its power to dominate the political process impeded the protection of public health.

The US has waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country's fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement came to power in 1963. In this volume Stephen Gowans examines the decades-long struggle between secular Arab nationalism, political Islam, and United States imperialism for... číst celé

Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea's current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by having nuclear weapons. Koreans have been fighting a civil war since 1932, when Kim Il Sung, founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, along with other Korean patriots, launched a guerrilla war against Japanese colonial domination. Other Koreans, traitors to the cause of Korea's freedom, including a future South Korean president, joined the side of Japan's Empire, becoming officers in the Japanese army or enlisting in the hated colonial police force. From early in the 20th century when Japan incorporated Korea into its burgeoning empire, Koreans have struggled against foreign domination, first by Japan then by the United States. Patriots, Traitors and Empires, The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom is a much-needed antidote to the jingoist clamor spewing from all quarters whenever Korea is discussed.