Dr Steve McGiffen

Assistant 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.

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News

Dr. McGiffen to Participate in Workshop on European Politics in Stockholm

November 17, 2009

Dr. Steve McGiffen

Dr. Steve McGiffen will address a workshop in Stockholm (Sweden) about European politics and the current condition of the left in government and opposition. The workshop is organized by the Swedish Labour Education Association on Saturday November 28th.

Dr. McGiffen's contribution is entitled 'Swimming Against the Tide: the Success of the Dutch Socialist Party in the First Decade of the 21st Century'. A paper with the same title will be published at the same time in Swedish translation by the Swedish journal Socialistisk Debatt.

Dr. Steve McGiffen's book on the E.U. and Water Privatization

July 8, 2009

Dr. Steve McGiffenSteve Mc Giffen: The E.U. and Water Privatization (Pluto, 2009)Pluto Press (London) has released Dr. Steve McGiffen's book about the European Union and water privatization: Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation, which he co-authored with EU Parliament member Kartika Liotard, of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands.

The authors' hypothesis is that European corporations, aided and abetted by the European Commission, are conducting a drive for privatization of water supply in developing countries which is exacerbating the problems associated with this essential service and jeopardizing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Dr. McGiffen speaks about European rail privatization at a conference in London

November 2, 2008

Dr. Steve McGiffenDr. Steve McGiffen participated in an international conference about rail privatization in Europe, hosted in London last June by the British Transport Labor Union RMT. The conference was attended by over 100 labor unionists from around the Eurasian continent, including Turkey and Latvia. Dr McGiffen spoke on the ideology driving the current privatization and its international roots.

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Ph.D
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School of International Relations

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