Gender, Race, and Power

Joyce P. Kaufman is professor emerita of political science at Whittier College and Director of the Women, Peace and Security Program of the Institute of World Affairs. She is the author of numerous books, articles and papers on women and war, U.S. foreign and security policy, and international relations. She received her B.A. and M.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.Kaufman is the sole author of Introduction to International Relations, 3rd edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022); A Concise History of United States Foreign Policy, 5th edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021); andNATO and the Former Yugoslavia: Crisis. With Andrew Dorman she was co-editor of Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis (Stanford University Press, 2014); and The Future of Transatlantic Relations, (Stanford University Press, 2011) and contributed original chapters to both. She is also the author of a number of original articles including “Women and Political Violence in Northern Ireland: Newspaper Imagery during the Troubles,” Women’s History Review, 30:7 (2021); “The U.S. and NATO in a Trump Administration: Lessons of the Past and Prospects for the Future,” International Affairs, 93: 2 (2017) 251-66; and “NATO and the Former Yugoslavia,” in The Journal of Conflict Studies, Winter 2000.Kristen P. Williams (PhD, UCLA) is professor of political science at Clark University. She is the author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, chapters, and journal articles on women/gender and war, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and hegemony and international relations. Williams is the sole author of Despite Nationalist Conflicts: Theory and Practice of Maintaining World Peace (Praeger, 2001). With Neal G. Jesse, she co-authored Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies (SUNY, 2005) and Ethnic Conflict A Systematic Approach to Conflict (CQ Press, 2011). She co-edited Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow or Challenge, (Stanford University Press, 2012). Her academic articles have been published in journals, including Political Psychology, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Research in Gender Studies, and International Politics, and Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Her most recent publication is a chapter in the edited volume, the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600(Oxford University Press, 2020).

Kaufman and Williams offer a much-needed and accessible examination of International Relations, explaining the myriad ways in which gender, race, empire, and power intersect and shape the core of every key issue in the field of International Relations. Gender, Race, and Power should be essential reading for every Introduction to IR course.

• List of Text BoxesPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Intersectionality and IRIntroduction: Starting with the War in UkraineIntersectionality and IRMainstream IR Theories: Realism, Liberalism, and ConstructivismCritiques of Mainstream IR: Race, Gender, and Empire—and IntersectionalityConclusion: Overview of Chapters 2-6Chapter 2: Intersectionality and Issues of War, Peace, and SecurityIntroductionWhat is War?What is Peace?War and Peace from an Intersectional Perspective: Human SecurityThe Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and UNSCR 1325Critiques of UNSCR 1325: Intersectionality MattersIntersectional Analysis: Northern Ireland as a Case StudyConclusionChapter 3: Intersectionality, Human Rights, and Humanitarian InterventionIntroductionHuman Rights as a Concept and a NormWomen and Their Impact on the UN Charter and UDHRUDHR and Human Rights from an Intersectional PerspectiveApplying an Intersectional Analysis: CEDAW as a Case StudyHumanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)ConclusionChapter 4: Intersectionality, the Global Economy, and Issues of DevelopmentIntroductionIR Approaches to the Global EconomyGendering Development: WID, WAD, and GADGlobal Health and Economic Development: COVID-19 as a Case StudyConclusionChapter 5: Intersectionality and the EnvironmentIntroductionDevelopment and Evolution of International Environmental PoliticsInternational Relations and the EnvironmentIntersectionality and International/Global Environmental PoliticsCase Study: Intersectionality and Climate ChangeGendering Climate Change and Global GovernanceConclusionChapter 6: Examining IR from an Intersectional Perspective: Lessons LearnedIntroductionAnswering the QuestionsIntersectionality and the Case StudiesConclusion: The Challenges and Possible Next StepsGlossaryAbout the Authors