Governing the Feminist Peace - The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures
A Note on Referencing
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. The Impossibility of Women, Peace, and Security
2. Becoming Policy Ecologists
3. Map, Territory, Text
4. Producing an Agenda at the United Nations
5. Domesticating the Gender Perspective
6. Fractures and Frictions of a Policy Ecosystem
7. Borderlands of the Feminist Peace
8. Forget WPS
Appendix 1. Ecosystem Policy Documents
Appendix 2. Policy Ecosystem Selection Criteria
Appendix 3. Codebook for Policy Ecosystem Analysis
Appendix 4. United Nations Treaties, Conventions, and Resolutions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Paul Kirby is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and a codirector of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub.

Laura J. Shepherd is professor of international relations at the University of Sydney and a visiting senior fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

Summary

This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Paul C. Kirby, Paul C. Shepherd Kirby, Laura Shepherd, Laura Kirby Shepherd, Shepherd Laura
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2024
• EAN: 9780231205139
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20513-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Political Science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, International Relations, Politics & government, Warfare and defence, Gender studies: women and girls