Hillary Doctrine - Sex and American Foreign Policy

A scholar and a journalist assess the push to make gender equality a cornerstone of America's international agenda.

List of contents

Foreword, by Ambassador Swanee Hunt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: History and Evolution
1. How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy
Part II: Theory and Cases
2. Should Sex Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy?
3. Guatemala: A Case Study
4. A Conspicuous Silence: U.S. Foreign Policy, Women, and Saudi Arabia
Part III: Policy and Implementation
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Implementing the Hillary Doctrine
6. Afghanistan: The Litmus Test for the Hillary Doctrine
7. The Future of the Hillary Doctrine: Realpolitik and Fempolitik
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Valerie M. Hudson is professor and holds the George H. W. Bush Chair at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She is the author or editor of several books, including (with Andrea Den Boer) Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population, which won the American Association of Publishers Award for the Best Book in Political Science and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Best Book in Social Demography. Hudson is one of the principal investigators of the WomanStats Project, which includes the largest compilation of data on the status of women in the world today. Her most recent book is Sex and World Peace, coauthored with Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad Emmett, listed by Gloria Steinem as one of the top three books on her "Reading Our Way to the Revolution" list.

Patricia Leidl is a Vancouver-based international communications adviser/writer. Leidl has spent close to two decades working with various United Nations agencies and more recently advising USAID-funded projects in Africa, Afghanistan and Yemen. She is the former head of the Advocacy and Communications with the Geneva-based HIV/AIDS Department of the World Health Organization and was senior editor/media advisor with the New York-based United Nations Population Fund. She continues to consult with numerous other multilateral organizations and international NGOs.

Summary

A scholar and a journalist assess the push to make gender equality a cornerstone of America’s international agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Hudson, Valerie (Texas A&M University) Hudson, Valerie (Texas A&m University) Leidl Hudson, Valerie M. Hudson, Valerie M. Leidl Hudson, Patricia Leidl, Leidl Patricia
• Assisted by: Hunt Swanee (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231164931
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16493-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, International Relations, Sexual abuse & harassment, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Sexual abuse and harassment, Gender studies: women and girls, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms