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Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct
threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way
creating and sharing sustainable solutions. Women's security is a
valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as
it addresses the specific problems affecting women's ability to
live dignified, free, and secure lives. First, this collection
focuses on how conflict impacts women's lives and well-being,
including rape and gendered constructions of ethnicity, race, and
religion. The book's second section looks beyond the scope of
large-scale violence to examine human security in terms of
environmental policy, food, water, health, and economics.
Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays from new and established
contributors draw from gender studies, international relations,
criminology, political science, economics, sociology, biological
and ecological sciences, and planning.
Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states
seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the
Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of
all types serve as a foundation for the projection of power and the
employment of force. These relationships among states provide the
foundation upon which hegemony is built.
"Waging War" argues that these institutions of interstate
violence--not just the technology, capability, and level of
professionalism and training of armed forces--serve as ready
mechanisms to employ force. However, these institutions are not
always well designed, and do not always augment fighting
effectiveness as they could. They sometimes serve as drags on state
capacity. At the same time, the net benefit of having this web of
partnerships, agreements, and alliances is remarkable. It makes
rapid response to crisis possible, and facilitates countering
threats wherever they emerge. This book lays out which
institutional arrangements lubricate states' abilities to advance
their agendas and prevail in wartime, and which components of
institutional arrangements undermine effectiveness and cohesion,
and increase costs to states. Patricia Weitsman outlines what she
calls a realist institutionalist agenda: one that understands
institutions as conduits of capability. She demonstrates and tests
the argument in five empirical chapters, examining the cases of the
first Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Each case has
distinct lessons as well as important generalizations for
contemporary multilateral warfighting.
The emergence of a large number of states which are willing and
able to challenge the norms of the international system constitutes
a major challenge to the global community. The contributors to this
volume analyse why so many states with high conflict propensities
have emerged in the post-Cold war era; explore the different
manifestations of riskiness in world politics; and evaluate the
international community's capacity to effectively 'enforce'
inter-state cooperation.
Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states
seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the
Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of
all types serve as a foundation for the projection of power and the
employment of force. These relationships among states provide the
foundation upon which hegemony is built.
"Waging War" argues that these institutions of interstate
violence--not just the technology, capability, and level of
professionalism and training of armed forces--serve as ready
mechanisms to employ force. However, these institutions are not
always well designed, and do not always augment fighting
effectiveness as they could. They sometimes serve as drags on state
capacity. At the same time, the net benefit of having this web of
partnerships, agreements, and alliances is remarkable. It makes
rapid response to crisis possible, and facilitates countering
threats wherever they emerge. This book lays out which
institutional arrangements lubricate states' abilities to advance
their agendas and prevail in wartime, and which components of
institutional arrangements undermine effectiveness and cohesion,
and increase costs to states. Patricia Weitsman outlines what she
calls a realist institutionalist agenda: one that understands
institutions as conduits of capability. She demonstrates and tests
the argument in five empirical chapters, examining the cases of the
first Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Each case has
distinct lessons as well as important generalizations for
contemporary multilateral warfighting.
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