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Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the
security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict
and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and
security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it
relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state
peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the
treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of
society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state
security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males,
the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws
protecting women. Their research challenges conventional
definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of
the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to
remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up
approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex
parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to
protect women, the authors campaign against women's systemic
insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World
Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy
makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been
major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as
well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature
surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors
Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and
Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation.
The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship
between women's oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new
material covering recent developments for global women's rights and
analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout
the world.
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social
organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females.
How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider
political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking
demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of
women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging
implications for global security and development. Incorporating
research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines
and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women
around the globe, the book shows that female subordination
functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society's choice to
subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse
governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic
performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic
problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social
progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political
structures that subordinate women, history-and the data-reveal
possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that
when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws,
customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new
paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and
violence, explaining what the international community can do now to
promote more equitable relations between men and women and,
thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence
of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important
book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers,
historians, and advocates for women worldwide.
Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the
security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict
and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and
security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it
relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state
peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the
treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of
society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state
security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males,
the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws
protecting women. Their research challenges conventional
definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of
the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to
remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up
approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex
parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to
protect women, the authors campaign against women's systemic
insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World
Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy
makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been
major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as
well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature
surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors
Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and
Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation.
The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship
between women's oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new
material covering recent developments for global women's rights and
analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout
the world.
This classic work has helped shape the field of international relations and especially influenced scholars interested in how foreign policy is made. At a time when conventional wisdom and traditional approaches are being questioned, and when there is increased interest in the importance of process, the insights of Snyder, Bruck and Sapin have continuing and increased relevance. Prescient in its focus on the effects on foreign policy of individuals and their preconceptions, organizations and their procedures, and cultures and their values, Foreign Policy Decision-Making is of continued relevance for anyone seeking to understand the ways foreign policy is made. Their seminal framework is here complemented by two new chapters examining its influence on generations of scholars, the current state of the field, and areas for future research.
This classic work has helped shape the field of international relations and especially influenced scholars interested in how foreign policy is made. At a time when conventional wisdom and traditional approaches are being questioned, and when there is increased interest in the importance of process, the insights of Snyder, Bruck and Sapin have continuing and increased relevance. Prescient in its focus on the effects on foreign policy of individuals and their preconceptions, organizations and their procedures, and cultures and their values, Foreign Policy Decision-Making is of continued relevance for anyone seeking to understand the ways foreign policy is made. Their seminal framework is here complemented by two new chapters examining its influence on generations of scholars, the current state of the field, and areas for future research.
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social
organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females.
How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider
political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking
demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of
women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging
implications for global security and development. Incorporating
research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines
and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women
around the globe, the book shows that female subordination
functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society's choice to
subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse
governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic
performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic
problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social
progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political
structures that subordinate women, history-and the data-reveal
possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that
when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws,
customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new
paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and
violence, explaining what the international community can do now to
promote more equitable relations between men and women and,
thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence
of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important
book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers,
historians, and advocates for women worldwide.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare
the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S.
national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was
the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development
Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the
proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force
for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork,
theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from
officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this
book is the first to thoroughly investigate the Hillary Doctrine in
principle and practice. Does the insecurity of women make nations
less secure? How has the doctrine changed the foreign policy of the
United States and altered its relationship with other countries
such as China and Saudi Arabia? With studies focusing on Guatemala,
Afghanistan, and Yemen, this invaluable policy text closes the gap
between rhetoric and reality, confronting head-on what the future
of fighting such an entrenched enemy entails. The research reports
directly on the work being done by U.S. government agencies,
including the Office of Global Women's Issues, established by
Clinton during her tenure at the State Department, and explores the
complexity and pitfalls of attempting to improve the lives of women
while safeguarding the national interest.
Why do men act violently toward women? What are the consequences of
"normal violence," not only for women and children but also for the
men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it? The
Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that
instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance:
the practice of polygyny. From more than a decade's worth of study,
Rose McDermott has produced a book that uncovers the violent impact
of polygyny on women, children, and the nation-state and adds
fundamentally to the burgeoning focus on gender concerns in
political psychology and international relations. Integrating these
fields, as well as domestic policy and human rights, the author
urges us to address the question of violence toward women and
children. If we do not, a system that tells young women they must
marry whom their elders dictate and devote their entire lives to
serving others will continue to plague the contemporary world, and
restrict development. The timely nature of McDermott's book
reflects the mission of the Easton Lectures at the
Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and
Morality at the University of California, Irvine, which charges its
lecturers to produce work that is creative, controversial, and
cutting-edge, and offers substantial real-world impact. The Evils
of Polygyny, edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe, includes commentary
from Valerie Hudson, Robert Jervis, and B. J. Wray. The book does
just that, providing a coherent analysis of sexual violence and a
provocative and chilling analysis of one of the major problems of
the contemporary world.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare
the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S.
national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was
the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development
Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the
proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force
for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork,
theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from
officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this
book is the first to thoroughly investigate the Hillary Doctrine in
principle and practice. Does the insecurity of women make nations
less secure? How has the doctrine changed the foreign policy of the
United States and altered its relationship with other countries
such as China and Saudi Arabia? With studies focusing on Guatemala,
Afghanistan, and Yemen, this invaluable policy text closes the gap
between rhetoric and reality, confronting head-on what the future
of fighting such an entrenched enemy entails. The research reports
directly on the work being done by U.S. government agencies,
including the Office of Global Women's Issues, established by
Clinton during her tenure at the State Department, and explores the
complexity and pitfalls of attempting to improve the lives of women
while safeguarding the national interest.
Why do men act violently toward women? What are the consequences of
"normal violence," not only for women and children but also for the
men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it? The
Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that
instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance:
the practice of polygyny. From more than a decade's worth of study,
Rose McDermott has produced a book that uncovers the violent impact
of polygyny on women, children, and the nation-state and adds
fundamentally to the burgeoning focus on gender concerns in
political psychology and international relations. Integrating these
fields, as well as domestic policy and human rights, the author
urges us to address the question of violence toward women and
children. If we do not, a system that tells young women they must
marry whom their elders dictate and devote their entire lives to
serving others will continue to plague the contemporary world, and
restrict development. The timely nature of McDermott's book
reflects the mission of the Easton Lectures at the
Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and
Morality at the University of California, Irvine, which charges its
lecturers to produce work that is creative, controversial, and
cutting-edge, and offers substantial real-world impact. The Evils
of Polygyny, edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe, includes commentary
from Valerie Hudson, Robert Jervis, and B. J. Wray. The book does
just that, providing a coherent analysis of sexual violence and a
provocative and chilling analysis of one of the major problems of
the contemporary world.
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