Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity

Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy

Auteur

Elgin Medea Brunner was a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Vienna, a Master in Political Science and a Master in International Relations both from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her research focus lies on gender issues in security studies and international relations, risk analysis and resilience as well as critical (information) infrastructure protection and cyber conflicts.

Contenu
Figures, Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Contextualizing the Study of Gender and War 2. Making Gender Tangible in Military Discourse 3. Poststructuralism in International Relations Theory 4. From Women to Gender Poststructuralist Feminism in International Relations and Security Studies 5. The Performative Relation between Foreign Policy (Military Discourse) and (Gendered) Identities 6. Accounting for the Unaccountable: Ideology and Discourse a Strained Relation? 7. Methodology and Data 8. The Doctrine of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict 9. Information (Age) Warfare 10. Reading Identity I: (not so) Silent Documents 11. Gendered Ideological Underpinnings: Masculinist Neoliberalism 12. The Practice of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict 13. Self and Other in Psyop Leaflets 14. Reading Identity II: Telling Articulations 15. The Masculinist Orientalism of the Omnipotent aviour 16. Performing Identity/Foreign (Security) Policy Conclusion Another Gendered Reproduction of the State Annex: Sources I. Military Doctrine Documents II. US Armed Forces Leaflets Bibliography