Maike Messerschmidt is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Maike Messerschmidt’s book is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and at times provocative, critical-feminist analysis of the pitfalls of security sector reform (SSR) in militarised, heteronormative, patriarchal contexts. It is an important, and immensely timely, call to take the gendered socio-political dimensions of SSR and militarism much more seriously into account.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Failure of Security Sector Reform in Uganda and Elsewhere1. Disentangling Complex Realities: Critical-Feminist and Practice-Theoretical Tools for Analysing SSR and Militarisation2. Militarised Masculinity, Protected Femininity, and a Muscular State: The Glorification of Military and Soldiers3. Masculine Experts of Violence, Feminine Victims, and the Legitimate Use of Military Force: The Glorification of Military Violence4. Controlling Women, Controlling Nations: Militaristic Nationalism5. Policing Sexuality, Gendered Enemies, and an Island of Peace: The Omnipresence of EnemiesConclusion: SSR and its DiscontentsList of InterviewsBibliography

Maike Messerschmidt is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Maike Messerschmidt’s book is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and at times provocative, critical-feminist analysis of the pitfalls of security sector reform (SSR) in militarised, heteronormative, patriarchal contexts. It is an important, and immensely timely, call to take the gendered socio-political dimensions of SSR and militarism much more seriously into account.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Failure of Security Sector Reform in Uganda and Elsewhere1. Disentangling Complex Realities: Critical-Feminist and Practice-Theoretical Tools for Analysing SSR and Militarisation2. Militarised Masculinity, Protected Femininity, and a Muscular State: The Glorification of Military and Soldiers3. Masculine Experts of Violence, Feminine Victims, and the Legitimate Use of Military Force: The Glorification of Military Violence4. Controlling Women, Controlling Nations: Militaristic Nationalism5. Policing Sexuality, Gendered Enemies, and an Island of Peace: The Omnipresence of EnemiesConclusion: SSR and its DiscontentsList of InterviewsBibliography

Maike Messerschmidt is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Maike Messerschmidt’s book is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and at times provocative, critical-feminist analysis of the pitfalls of security sector reform (SSR) in militarised, heteronormative, patriarchal contexts. It is an important, and immensely timely, call to take the gendered socio-political dimensions of SSR and militarism much more seriously into account.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Failure of Security Sector Reform in Uganda and Elsewhere1. Disentangling Complex Realities: Critical-Feminist and Practice-Theoretical Tools for Analysing SSR and Militarisation2. Militarised Masculinity, Protected Femininity, and a Muscular State: The Glorification of Military and Soldiers3. Masculine Experts of Violence, Feminine Victims, and the Legitimate Use of Military Force: The Glorification of Military Violence4. Controlling Women, Controlling Nations: Militaristic Nationalism5. Policing Sexuality, Gendered Enemies, and an Island of Peace: The Omnipresence of EnemiesConclusion: SSR and its DiscontentsList of InterviewsBibliography