Men Militarism And Un Peacekeeping

Author : Sandra Whitworth
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1588262960

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Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping by Sandra Whitworth Pdf

In this important, controversial, and at times troubling book, Sandra Whitworth looks behind the rhetoric to investigate from a feminist perspective some of the realities of military intervention under the UN flag. Whitworth contends that there is a fundamental contradiction between portrayals of peacekeeping as altruistic and benign and the militarized masculinity that underpins the group identity of soldiers. Examining evidence from Cambodia and Somalia, she argues that sexual and other crimes can be seen as expressions of a violent hypermasculinity that is congruent with militarized identities, but entirely incongruent with missions aimed at maintaining peace. She also asserts that recent efforts within the UN to address gender issues in peacekeeping operations have failed because they fail to challenge traditional understandings of militaries, conflict, and women. This unsettling critique of UN operations, which also investigates the interplay between gender and racial stereotyping in peacekeeping, has the power to change conventional perceptions, with considerable policy implications.

Author : Sandra Whitworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1685851339

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Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping by Sandra Whitworth Pdf

Sandra Whitworth looks behind the rhetoric to investigate from a feminist perspective some of the realities of military intervention under the UN flag. Whitworth contends that there is a fundamental contradiction between portrayals of peacekeeping as altruistic and benign and the militarized masculinity that underpins the group identity of soldiers. Examining evidence from Cambodia and Somalia, she argues that sexual and other crimes can be seen as expressions of a violent "hypermasculinity" that is congruent with militarized identities, but entirely incongruent with missions aimed at maintaining peace. She also asserts that recent efforts within the UN to address gender issues in peacekeeping operations have failed because they fail to challenge traditional understandings of militaries, conflict, and women. This unsettling critique of UN operations, which also investigates the interplay between gender and racial stereotyping in peacekeeping, has the power to change conventional perceptions, with considerable policy implications.

Author : Sandrawhitworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8130900815

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Men, Militarism & Un Peacekeeping by Sandrawhitworth Pdf

Author : Annica Kronsell
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199846061

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Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defense by Annica Kronsell Pdf

From a feminist constructivist institutional approach the author explores how gender aspects and UN SCR 1325 has influenced the way that the post-national defense organizes its practices and the policies pursued.

Author : Annica Kronsell,Erika Svedberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136632136

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Making Gender, Making War by Annica Kronsell,Erika Svedberg Pdf

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The "war question for feminism" marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case studies, organized around four themes: gender, violence and militarism; how the making of gender is connected to a (re)making of the nation through military practices; UN SCR 1325 and gender mainstreaming in institutional practices; and gender subjectivities in the organization of violence, exploring the notion of violent women and non-violent men.

Author : G. Heathcote,D. Otto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400215

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Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security by G. Heathcote,D. Otto Pdf

This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and the prevalence of economic disadvantages might be addressed in post-conflict communities.

Author : Harvey Langholtz,Boris Kondoch,Alan Wells
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047411895

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International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations by Harvey Langholtz,Boris Kondoch,Alan Wells Pdf

International Peacekeeping is devoted to reporting upon and analyzing international peacekeeping with an emphasis upon legal and policy issues, but is not limited to these issues. It is recognized that in today's world there is a wealth of information available from the internet and through other sources. It is therefore the goal of this Yearbook to make this information available in one publication which both organizes and records events over the course of a year through analytical articles, a chronicle, primary documents, and a bibliography. Topics include inter alia peacekeeping, peace, war, conflict resolution, diplomacy, international law, international security, humanitarian relief, humanitarian law, and terrorism. The Yearbook is of scholarly quality but is not narrowly theoretical. It provides the interested public -- diplomats, civil servants, politicians, the military, academics, journalists, NGO employees, and serious citizens -- with a document of record, comment, and a starting point for further research on peacekeeping and related topics. This is achieved not only by the provision of 'basic documents' (on CD ROM), such as Security Council Resolutions and Reports of the UN Secretary- General, but also by expert commentaries on world events. Peacekeeping is treated in a pragmatic light, seen as a form of international military cooperation for the preservation or restoration of international peace and security. Attention is focused not only on UN peacekeeping operations, but other missions as well. This Yearbook is the continuation of the journal International Peacekeeping.

Author : Karen Hagemann,Stefan Dudink,Sonya O. Rose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199948710

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600 by Karen Hagemann,Stefan Dudink,Sonya O. Rose Pdf

To date, war history has focused predominantly on the efforts of and impact of war on male participants. However, this limited focus disregards the complexity of gendered experiences with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of military culture, examining the varied ideals and practices that have socially differentiated men and women'swartime experiences. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, The Handbook explores cultural representations of war and the interconnectedness of the military with civil society and its transformations.

Author : Sandra Whitworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230371620

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Feminism and International Relations by Sandra Whitworth Pdf

This book provides a critique of the discipline of international relations from a feminist perspective. The critique is developed, first theoretically. Then the author examines both feminist theories and theories of international relations with a view to developing an approach to world politics which incorporates an analysis of gender, and gender relations. The critique is secondly developed through the application of the notion of gender to the activities of two international institutions, the International Parenthood Federation and the International Labour Organisation.

Author : Alex J. Bellamy,Paul D. Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191653476

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Providing Peacekeepers by Alex J. Bellamy,Paul D. Williams Pdf

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the rising demand for peacekeepers saw the United Nations (UN) operate at a historically unprecedented tempo, with increases in the number and size of missions as well as in the scope and complexity of their mandates. The need to deploy over 120,000 UN peacekeepers and the demands placed upon them in the field have threatened to outstrip the willingness and to some extent capacity of the UN's Member States. This situation raised the questions of why states contribute forces to UN missions and, conversely, what factors inhibit them from doing more? Providing Peacekeepers answers these questions. After summarizing the challenges confronting the UN in its force generation efforts, the book develops a new framework for analyzing UN peacekeeping contributions in light of the evidence presented in sixteen case study chapters which examine the experiences of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Nepal, Uruguay, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Japan. The book concludes by offering recommendations for how the UN might develop new strategies for force generation so as to meet the foreseeable challenges of twenty-first century peacekeeping and improve the quantity and quality of its uniformed peacekeepers.

Author : Maya Eichler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804778367

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Militarizing Men by Maya Eichler Pdf

A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced. Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in international relations applies for the first time the concept of "militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to the case of Russia.

Author : Marysia Zalewski,Paula Drumond,Elisabeth Prugl,Maria Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315456478

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Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics by Marysia Zalewski,Paula Drumond,Elisabeth Prugl,Maria Stern Pdf

Sexual violence against men is an under-theorised and under-noticed topic, though it is becoming increasingly apparent that this form of violence is widespread. Yet despite emerging evidence documenting its incidence, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones, efforts to understand its causes and develop strategies to reduce it are hampered by a dearth of theoretical engagement. One of the reasons that might explain its empirical invisibility and theoretical vacuity is its complicated relationship with sexual violence against women. The latter is evident empirically, theoretically, and politically, but the relationship between these violences conjures a range of complex and controversial questions about the ways they might be different, and why and how these differences matter. It is the case that sexual violence (when noticed at all) has historically been understood to happen largely, if not only, to women, allegedly because of their gender and their ensuing place in gender orders. This begs important questions regarding the impact of increasing knowledge about sexual violence against men, including the impact on resources, on understandings about, and experiences of masculinity, and whether the idea and practice of gender hierarchy is outdated. This book engages this diverse set of questions and offers fresh analysis on the incidences of sexual violence against men using both new and existing data. Additionally, the authors pay close attention to some of the controversial debates in the context of sexual violence against men, revisiting and asking new questions about the vexed issue of masculinities and related theories of gender hierarchy. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sex, gender, masculinities, corporeality, violence, and global politics, as well as to practitioners and activists.

Author : Jonathan Fisher,Nina Wilén
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499378

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African Peacekeeping by Jonathan Fisher,Nina Wilén Pdf

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

Author : Paul R. Viotti,Mark V. Kauppi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538115701

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International Relations Theory by Paul R. Viotti,Mark V. Kauppi Pdf

This book is the longest-standing and best-selling IR theory text on the market, popular for the authors’ clear and readable explanations of the various IR world views. Newer editions identify separate interpretive understandings—positivism, feminism, and those influenced by phenomenology—post-modernism, critical theory, and constructivism.

Author : David Curran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319463056

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More than Fighting for Peace? by David Curran Pdf

This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations. Military personnel serving on United Nations peacekeeping operations are deployed into highly challenging post-conflict environments, where the likelihood of violence remains high. Moreover, these personnel are deployed part of a wider peace process, and are thus situated as an anchor point in a transition from war to peace. This dimension of their work therefore means that a range of skills and techniques are relied upon, which come not from traditional military training, but from other, non-traditional fields. It is into this gap where the academic field of conflict resolution has made a valuable contribution to understanding international peacekeeping. Since the 1970’s, studies have sought to understand international peacekeeping as a necessary stage in conflict de-escalation, and ultimately transformation. From this, there is a history of engagement including studies which seek to understand the skills peacekeepers may need to assist them in their day to day activities, and the role that international peacekeeping plays in wider projects of conflict transformation.