Rethinking International Security: Feminist Critiques in International Relations

Abstract

The discipline of International Relations (IR) has defined its boundaries through masculine terms, which makes women and gender relations hardly visible. Nevertheless, women have always been an inseparable part of interstate relations, and the world’s most important problems cannot be treated separately from gender politics. On grounds of the basic assumptions of feminist IR theories, the aim of this study is to analyse how feminism offers new ways to understand contemporary issues of international security. In this vein, feminist IR literature is analysed from the perspective of security, and feminist critiques are exemplified through the concept of the “Responsibility to Protect”.

Keywords

Feminism, International Relations, Security, the Responsibility to Protect, Resolution 1325

Citation

Atmaca, Ayşe Ömür and Gözen Ercan, Pınar, “Rethinking International Security: Feminist Critiques in International Relations”, International Relations, Volume 13, Issue 59, 2018, pp. 19-31, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.523824

Affiliations

• Ayşe Ömür ATMACA, Dr. Instructor, Department of International Relations, Hacettepe University, Ankara
• Pınar GÖZEN ERCAN, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Hacettepe University, Ankara