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Book SynopsisMotivated by the lack of scholarly understanding of the substantial gender difference in attitudes toward the use of military force, Richard C. Eichenberg has mined a massive data set of public opinion surveys to draw new and important conclusions. By analyzing hundreds of such surveys across more than sixty countries, Gender, War, and World Order offers researchers raw data, multiple hypotheses, and three major findings.
Eichenberg poses three questions of the data: Are there significant differences in the opinions of men and women on issues of national security? What differences can be discerned across issues, culture, and time? And what are the theoretical and political implications of these attitudinal differences? Within this framework, Gender, War, and World Order compares gender difference on military power, balance of power, alliances, international institutions, the acceptability of war, defense spending, defense/welfare compromises, and torture. Eichenb
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This book provides a valuable analysis of gender and foreign policy attitudes that will interest students of international relations and public opinion.
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Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Gender, War, and World Order
1. Hypotheses, Data, and Method
2. Threats, Power, War, and Institutions
3. The Gendered Politics of Defense Spending
4. American Attitudes toward Torture
5. Gender Difference in American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force
6. Gender Difference in Cross-National Perspective
7. Global Variation in Gender Difference
Conclusion: The Shadow of Violence
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
