Steve McGiffen, Ph.D.

Thesis Advisor Fields of expertise The European Union Neoliberalism, corporate power and resistance Global inequalities International environmental politics

Education

• Ph.D, US political history, University of Manchester, England

• M.A., British and American History, University of Manchester, England

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Leeds, England

• B.A. with Honors, Humanities, Middlesex Polytechnic, England

Other current posts

• Consultant, Socialist Party of the Netherlands

Previous experience

• Tutor in Comparative British and American History, Open University, UK, 1986-93

• Political assistant to Thomas Megahy, Member of the European Parliament, 1986-99

• Member of the Secretariat and advisor on environmental affairs, European Parliament United Left Group, 1999-2005

Selected publications

Books

• Poisoned Spring: The European Union and Water Privatisation (London: Pluto Press, 2009)

• The European Union: A Critical Guide (2nd Edition; Dutch and Romanian translations) (London: Pluto Press, 2005)

• Biotechnology: Corporate Power versus the Public Interest (London: Pluto Press, 2005)

• Globalisation (Harpenden, England: Pocket Essentials, 2002)

• Tennant's Rock (a novel) (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001)

• Edits www.spectrezine.org, an English-language website sponsored by the Socialist Party of the Netherlands

Articles

• “The European Union as ‘Universalist’ Project: Developing a Critical Left response” (Politika Annual Journal 2009, University of Hong Kong) 

• “Bloodless Coup d’Etat: The European Union’s Response to the Eurozone Crisis” Socialism & Democracy  Vol 25/2, 56 (2011) pp25-44

•  “European ‘Democracy Promotion’: dynamic versus passive revolutions in the Arab Spring”, Chapter 3 of Osha, Sanya (ed.) The Social Contract in Africa (Pretoria, RSA, Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014)

Contact

smcgiffen@sp.nl