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Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants
exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who
these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are
utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends.
This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women’s
participation in nonstate armed groups in a range of contemporary
political and social contexts: the civil war in Ukraine, the
conflicts involving Kurdish groups in the Middle East, and the
civil war in Colombia. In particular, the authors examine three
important aspects of women’s participation in armed groups:
mobilization, participation in combat, and conflict cessation. In
doing so, they shed light on women’s pathways into and out of
nonstate armed groups. They also address the implications of
women’s participation in these conflicts for policy, including
postconflict programming. This is an accessible and timely work
that will be a useful introduction to another side of contemporary
conflict.
Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the
Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan
genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been
punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence
challenges our assumptions about war and about women. Biases about
women as peaceful and innocent prevent us from "seeing" women as
war criminals—and prevent postconflict justice systems from
assigning women blame. Women as War Criminals argues that women are
just as capable as men of committing war crimes and crimes against
humanity. In addition to unsettling assumptions about women as
agents of peace and reconciliation, the book highlights the
gendered dynamics of law, and demonstrates that women are adept at
using gender instrumentally to fight for better conditions and
reduced sentences when war ends. The book presents the legal cases
of four women: the President (Biljana Plavšić), the Minister
(Pauline Nyiramasuhuko), the Soldier (Lynndie England), and the
Student (Hoda Muthana). Each woman's complex identity influenced
her treatment by legal systems and her ability to mount a gendered
defense before the court. Justice, as Steflja and Trisko Darden
show, is not blind to gender.
The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet
there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the
politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four
decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and
Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good.
Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and
its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship
between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that
many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the
Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S.
interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of
Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can
uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and
Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign
assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by
focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human
freedom.
The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet
there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the
politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four
decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and
Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good.
Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and
its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship
between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that
many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the
Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S.
interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of
Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can
uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and
Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign
assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by
focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human
freedom.
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