Associate Professor 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 (Pluto Press, London) to be published May, 2009

• The European Union: A Critical Guide (2ndEdition; Duth 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

• "A Temperate Course: The Correspondence of Benjamin and Henry French," Historical New Hampshire, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer/Fall 1983

• "Ideology and the Failure of the Whig Party in New Hampshire, 1834-41" The New England Quarterly, Vol. LIX. No. 3, September 1986

• Articles on political, social and environmental issues in British and Dutch newspapers and magazines including The Guardian (Education Supplement), The Yorkshire Post (Women's Supplement), Yorkshire on Sunday, Business Woman, De Volkskrant, De Tribune and Agrarisch Dagblad.

Contact

smcgiffen@sp.nl