Afghan Women in Geopolitical Imaginaries: Between NATO and India
The focus on personal stories in the media obscures the uncomfortable truth of the dire situation for Afghan women and their underrepresentation in Afghan armed forces.
10th Anniversary Interview – Cynthia Enloe
To celebrate E-IR’s 10th anniversary we asked some of our existing interviewees two further questions reflecting on the last decade in International Relations.
Masculinities at the Margins: A feminist Curiosity of Gender, Militarism and War
What happens to ‘military masculinities’ and stories of war, violence and gender, if we begin to account for ‘the margins’ of war, of militaries and of masculinities?
4 Things Feminists Tell Us about Private Security: A Gender Audit on Security
In various ways feminists continue to draw our attention to how gender underpins the political and economics of security.
The Hidden Politics of Militarization and Pop Culture as Political Communication
Unless we pay attention to what is happening beyond the most visibly militarised context we will miss an important dimension to the logics of militarisation.
Review – Militarism and International Relations
Stavrianakis and Selby’s collection successfully incorporates many diverse perspectives on militarism which affirm their claim that a return of militarism to central IR debates is indeed needed.
Review – US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam
Ives’ strange book tells and retells the same story about U.S. Special Forces and counterinsurgency, repeating traditional criticisms of U.S. strategy in Vietnam.
Review – Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence
In Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence, Annica Kronsell challenges an assumption that gender mainstreaming is more achievable than gender parity in military organisations.
