Natalie Florea Hudson

Gender, Human Security and the United Nations: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women

1. Women, Peace and Security: An Introduction 2. Womens Activism in the Context of the Security Debate: Theoretical Underpinnings 3. The Security Framework in Practice: The Case of SCR 1325 4. Women and Children: Comparative Frameworks and Strategies within the Council 5. The United Nations Development Fund for Women: Working Its Way into the Security Sector 6. The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: A Litmus Test for Assessing the Status of Women and Security 7. Conclusion References

Evolving Beyond Self-Interest? Some Experimental Findings From Simulated International Negotiations

Negotiation is a process of exchange intellectually, socially, and in terms of the items (tangible or not) that provide the focal point for negotiations. In recent years, the English School has discussed international institutions from a normative point of view that emphasizes the development of shared norms and values. Actors are affected by their institutional surroundings and hence learn by doing and come to identify with the norms of the system. Primary institutions have developed over time and the international system is still evolving toward being more intertwined and toward the convergence realm on the spectrum, which ranges from power politics to coexistence to cooperation and then convergence. Thus far, most work in the English School tradition has tended to be normative and historical in approach. This article examines positive empirical evidence to support the theory of institutional development and social interaction. Using data from the GlobalEd project (www.globaled.uconn.edu), this article will examine how shared norms and practices become embedded in the operation of actors participating in international, simulated negotiations. Analysis of messages from these negotiations will show that participants adapt to the rules and the norms of the interaction environment. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the norms of the community become part of actors’ behavior and influence, positively, future interactions. Our conclusions indicate that increased interaction leads to positive spillover effects in terms of cooperation and international agreements.

Experimenting with global governance: understanding the potential for generational change

The appropriate role for the United Nations in international dispute resolution is a matter of high profile discussion and controversy. This paper begins with this ambivalence about the appropriate role for the United Nations in the world and examines several sets of issues that relate to the future of support for the UN within the US and the prospects for global governance more generally. First, we briefly review two thematic strands in previous and contemporary scholarship:(1) arguments for increased global governance in contemporary world affairs, driven by perceptions of the changing nature of the political, social, economic and military challenges in the contemporary world system. This debate is also put in the context of the relevance of public support for global governance institutions; and (2) why it is valuable to study how the current generation of adolescents perceive issues of global governance and the impact that their views may have on that nexus in the coming years. We then move to an analysis of data generated from an experimental study of American adolescents and their attitudes toward global governance.

intelligent compassion: feminist critical methodology in the women’s international league for peace and freedom

Since 1979, the readership of Feminist Review has relied upon the journal as ‘a vehicle to unite research and theory with the political practice, and contribute to the development of both’. Catia Confortini’s book Intelligent Compassion: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom speaks directly to the core mission of this journal and will be of great interest to those readers who remain committed to FR’s mission of critical and sophisticated scholarship. This well-organised and well-researched historical account of a critically engaged and constantly evolving women’s activist organisation is both informative and captivating and should be read by all those interested in feminist theorising and feminist advocacy.