Sex and World Peace

List of MapsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Roots of National and International Relations2. What Is There to See3. When We Do See the Global Picture4. The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States5. Wings of National and International Relations6. Wings of National and International Relations7. Taking WingAppendix A. Operationalizations for Data Analysis in Chapter 4Appendix B. Data Analysis Results for Chapter 4NotesContributorsIndex

Valerie M. Hudson is professor and George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Her research concerns foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology, and her articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the author or editor of several books, including, with Andrea Den Boer, Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population, which won the American Association of Publishers Award for Best Book in Political Science and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Best Book in Social Demography. She was named one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009. Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill is professor emeritus of psychology at Brigham Young University and the last director of its Women's Research Institute. She is a fellow in both the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. Her research focuses on interpersonal violence and peace. She is a coauthor of Peaceabilities: Compelling Stories and Activities That Develop Abilities of Children to Live Peacefully with Others and coeditor of A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women. Mary Caprioli is associate professor, Head of the Department of Political Science, and Director of International Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She pioneered a new line of scholarly inquiry between the security of women and the national and international behavior of states and confirmed the link using quantitative methodology. She is an associate editor for Foreign Policy Analysis, an editorial board member for the Peace and Conflict Report, and an advisory board member for the Minorities at Risk Project. She is also a member of the International Group of Experts for the UNSCR 1325 Research Group of the government of Sweden. Chad F. Emmett is an associate

Sex and World Peace should be on top of every introductory International Relations reading list. -- Sara E. Davies International Affairs Vol 88, No 5 [A] pioneering and readable book... Highly recommended. Choice 3/1/13 This is an important, well written, and inf ormative book that will serve a wide audience of graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and policymakers, as well as the interested public. -- Helen M. Kinsella Ethics and International Affairs Summer 2013 highly readable and provides a thought-provoking introduction to the reasons why equality between women and men within the family matters for the relations between states and, ultimately, world peace. -- Marijke Breuning Peace and Conflict Vol 19, No 3, 2013