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Kaufman and Williams present critical issues in international relations through an intersectional approach that examines race, gender, class, ethnicity, and power to arrive at better explanations for such core IR issues as war and peace, security, human rights, development and international political economy, and the global environment.
Their approach builds on early calls amongst feminist IR theorists, imploring "Where are the women?" It is only fairly recently that students of IR have broadened the approach to the field to incorporate the dimensions of race, ethnicity, and class as well as gender. Kaufman and Williams help guide readers exploring questions like: How does gender matter for understanding war and peace? How does race matter? Where are the men? What is intersectionality in IR? How does an intersectional approach change or broaden our understanding of international relations?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Text BoxesPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1:
Intersectionality and IRIntroduction: Starting with the War in Ukraine
Intersectionality and IR
Mainstream IR Theories: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism
Critiques of Mainstream IR: Race, Gender, and Empire-and Intersectionality
Conclusion: Overview of Chapters 2-6
Chapter 2: Intersectionality and Issues of War, Peace, and SecurityIntroduction
What is War?
What is Peace?
War and Peace from an Intersectional Perspective: Human Security
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and UNSCR 1325
Critiques of UNSCR 1325: Intersectionality Matters
Intersectional Analysis: Northern Ireland as a Case Study
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Intersectionality, Human Rights, and Humanitarian InterventionIntroduction
Human Rights as a Concept and a Norm
Women and Their Impact on the UN Charter and UDHR
UDHR and Human Rights from an Intersectional Perspective
Applying an Intersectional Analysis: CEDAW as a Case Study
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Intersectionality, the Global Economy, and Issues of DevelopmentIntroduction
IR Approaches to the Global Economy
Gendering Development: WID, WAD, and GAD
Global Health and Economic Development: COVID-19 as a Case Study
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Intersectionality and the EnvironmentIntroduction
Development and Evolution of International Environmental Politics
International Relations and the Environment
Intersectionality and International/Global Environmental Politics
Case Study: Intersectionality and Climate Change
Gendering Climate Change and Global Governance
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Examining IR from an Intersectional Perspective: Lessons LearnedIntroduction
Answering the Questions
Intersectionality and the Case Studies
Conclusion: The Challenges and Possible Next Steps
GlossaryAbout the Authors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
By Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams