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Description
Since the end of the Cold War, international security has been guaranteed by the so-called Liberal International Order(Ikenberry 2011; Mearsheimer 2019). But its implementation has never been peaceful (Ikenberry 2010) and has always been subject to important contestations (Alcaro 2018). Adopting a constructivist framework (Wendt 1999), we consider the Liberal Order as a system made also by precise values, norms, and ideas (Kundnani 2017). Among them, there is without doubt a precise dimension of values related to gender (Hafner-Burton and Pollack 2002), expressed in key elements as “Women, Peace and Security” resolutions or the Fourth World Women's Conference in Beijing (1995). While politics related to gender has not traditionally been a core field of IR, the role that it assumed in the Liberal International Order has made it a key element of contestation of the Order itself. This research aims to show the role of the gender dimension in the contestation (Orchard and Wiener 2022) of the Order. It aims to provide a conceptual framework to consider how gender has been used in different ways and with different aims to contest the international order by various actors. This research develops a typology based on three axes: while having in common the use of the gender dimension, the actors differ in the impact aimed at International Order -either revisionist or reformist-, in the way of contesting the gender dimension - either progressive or conservative- and in the driver to do so - either ideological or strategic. Analyzing three key dimensions of the social construction and contestation, both institutional and societal, of the international order - Foreign Policy, Ideological production, and social movements- this research aims to provide a comprehensive framework of analysis to understand in what ways gender has become a key terrain of normative contestation of the Liberal International Order.
| If you are submitting an Open Panel proposal, have you included all four abstracts in attachment? | No, I am submitting a Closed Panel abstract |
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| Would you like to be considered for travel funding through the NetSec COST Action? | Yes |
| Are you a member of the NetSec Management Committee? | No |
| What discipline or branch of humanities or social sciences do you identify yourself with? | Political science |
| Which of the following best describes your stage of the career? | BA/MA Student |
| In which country is your home institution? | Italy |
| What is your gender? | Female |