Stephen Gowans

Stephen Gowans is an independent political analyst and writer whose principal interest is how public and foreign policy is formulated, particularly in the United States. His writings, which appear on his What's Left blog, have been reproduced widely in online and print media in many languages and have been cited in academic journals and other scholarly works. He is the author of three acclaimed books, Washington's Long War on Syria (2017), Patriots, Traitors and Empires, The Story of Korea's...See more

Stephen Gowans is an independent political analyst and writer whose principal interest is how public and foreign policy is formulated, particularly in the United States. His writings, which appear on his What's Left blog, have been reproduced widely in online and print media in many languages and have been cited in academic journals and other scholarly works. He is the author of three acclaimed books, Washington's Long War on Syria (2017), Patriots, Traitors and Empires, The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom (2018), and Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East , all published by Baraka Books. See less