Devaditya Agnihotri is pursuing an MSc in Conflict Studies at the LSE. He was the recipient of Newcastle University’s Vacation Scholarship in 2018 which funded this piece of original research.

Katharine A. M. Wright is Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. She researches gender and security in institutional settings, including NATO, with a focus on the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda. Her book NATO, Gender and the Military: Women Organising from Within was published by Routledge in 2019 (co-authored with Matthew Hurley and Jesus Ignacio Gil Ruiz). You can follow her on Twitter @KAMWright.