Gendered Security? The tension between robust military humanitarian intervention and non-violence in post-neutral states (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper examines how gender has been deployed or worked into arguments for robust military peace enforcement activities beyond the traditional scope of peacekeeping in the ‘post-neutral’ states. We argue that these states provide a unique and complex case study through which to examine the transition in support for military action in specific contexts, such as neutral states transitioning to ‘post-neutrality’, collaborative regional security cooperation, ‘cosmopolitan militaries’, and increasingly muscular forms of humanitarian intervention. This is primarily due to the legacy of neutrality, which we argue contains a gendered history that has not fully been explored. Having been ‘infantilised’ as neutrals, the argument goes that in order to transition to ‘maturity’ they need to shed their traditional neutrality; this involves specifically gendered forms of securitizing that engages discourses of identity, gender and violence with cosmopolitan and progressive security that permits...

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