Feminists entered the discipline of International Relations with a claim that only by introducing gender analysis could the differential impact of the state system and the global economy on the lives of women and men be fully understood. IR feminists often begin their examinations of international relations at the micro-level — attempting to understand how individuals’ lives (especially marginalized individuals) affect and are affected by global politics. Your task is to examine the concept of security from a feminist perspective.
Length: Between 10 and 14 pages (text only) (Min 10 pages – Max 15 pages long) plus bibliography and cover page (which are not included in the page count)
Sources: Books used in class plus minimum 7 additional academic sources are required in order to get a top mark for the paper. No-name web sources (notes, so called policy papers, commentaries) unpublished conference papers, wikipedias, etc, are not acceptable. You must only use the following: academic journals, academic books, formal government documents and documents published by well-known international organizations (UN, WTO, WB, UNCTAD, IMF, etc) (only those with a formal document number). Newspaper articles (The Economist, NYT) can only be used as supplementary sources