Bavljenje rodnom (ne)sigurnošću
Engaging gender (in)security

Summary/Abstract: Despite the proliferation of diverse feminist scholarship in the field of inter- national relations (IR) theory over the past two decades, this body of work has been marginalized in the discipline. Consequently, a key contribution of feminist literature, the introduction of gender in the study of international relations and its focus on the gendered nature of other IR theories is overlooked. This article is a contribution to the ongoing debate on gender in the context of international relations and security studies. It presents the argument that while the feminist literature has presciently critiqued the realist conception of security and advocated for a multi-dimensional and multi-level re-definition of security, solutions proffered to achieve this more encompassing secu- rity inadvertently risk reifying gender as innate rather than constructed and, as a re- sult, have yet to achieve their desired ends. Even though a push for increased partici- pation in the relevant decision-making spheres is accompanied by attempts to alter the present discourse by emphasizing various “devalued feminine principles,” if these are being pushed solely by women, it will have little effect. Accordingly, an alternative is proposed in this essay that advocates focusing efforts to include more male partici- pants in the discourse and a further emphasizing of male insecurities, as well as fe- male insecurities, to help “denaturalize and dismantle” gendered hierarchies to con- tribute to greater security.

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