Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity

Brunner, Elgin

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“…Through a textual analysis of the official documents of the CSDP (Kronsell, ) in which I employed a feminist methodology (Ackerley et al ., ) that interprets texts and searches for binary constructions around feminine and masculine identities (cf. Brunner, ), I found silence on gender. There was no mention of men or masculinity; women and gender were defined outside the CSDP.…”

Section: The Csdp: the Path Dependence Of Military Masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory

Kronsell

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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This article advances feminist analysis in the study of European integration through a focus on gender power in relation to masculinity constructs. It takes issue with the fact that gender studies tend to equate gender with women. It sketches a feminist contribution to integration theory, where the EU is perceived as gender regimes at multiple levels. Gender identity constructsmasculinities and femininitiesrely on difference and are shifting across time, levels and sectors. Yet the variations of identity constructs are limited by well-established ideasgender binariesproviding continuity and path dependences to maintain the gender system, for example through the 'EU protector masculinity' in the EU CSDP. European integration thus is a process whereby EU masculinities and femininities are constructed through EU relations to other states in the global context and in EU policy-making and institution-building. *I am extremely grateful to the editors of this special issue for valuable input during various stages of work with this article, for the encouraging comments of the participants at the special issue workshop at the University of Kent, Canterbury in January 2016 and for the critical and insightful comments from two anonymous reviewers.

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Section: The Csdp: the Path Dependence Of Military Masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory

Kronsell

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The key emotive elements this time were respectively, retaliation for the September 11th of 2001 catastrophe in the US, and the alleged threat of weapons of mass destruction. During this period, information operations in the home-front became a central feature in US warfare, and the notion of perception management was identified in military and political discourse [27,125]. Perception management has been defined as the set of actions taken to influence audiences' perceptions and behaviours [140,164].…”

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Cognitive warfare

Pastor¹

2023

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Military powers have consolidated in the last two decades a way to erase the boundaries between peacetime and crisis and wage a continuous war. Cognitive warfare (CW) has been proposed as the most advanced form to-date of manipulation of behaviour at mass scale to obtain strategic advantage. Instead of the corpse-ridden battlefields of kinetic warfare, the theatre of operations of CW is the human mind, and therein operations are realized on the fields of perception, emotion and memory. The goal is not termination but permanent control and exploitation. This opinion article reviews methods of CW focused on the human factors that may be manipulated not to merely control what populations think but how they think and thus how they act. It is argued that the weaponisation of sciences of brain and behaviour, combined with a distributed-computing technological millieu, can be utilised in CW to fine-tune societal and subject-level factors rendering not only all opposition infertile, but the very fact of being oppressed desirable.

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“…If there is a protector identity, we should be expecting to find also the protected in the text or between the lines (cf. Brunner 2013, 33). It is likely the EU woman who is the one who stays “at home” when the CSDP goes on operations abroad.…”

Section: Eu Homeland Femininitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In my reading of the texts on and about the CSDP, I employ feminist methodology (Ackerley, Stern, and True 2006) and interpret texts and search for binary constructions around feminine and masculine identities consistent with constructivist feminist approaches (cf. Brunner 2013). Thus, my interest is in exploring this reproduction of the gender order in the CSDP in some more detail by learning about gendered norms and practices and what kinds of masculinities and femininities are constructed in the EU when it conducts security and defense affairs.…”

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Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities

Kronsell

2015

Men and Masculinities

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This article explores the European Union (EU)'s Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) through a framework based on feminist institutional theory that highlights the durability in the dynamics of gender relations. Path dependency based on historic features of military institutions-a strict sex division based on ''gender war roles''-has influenced the development of different CSDP bodies. The CSDP is sexed because male bodies dominate the organizations studied, yet this remains invisible through normalization. A dominant EU hierarchical military masculinity is institutionalized in the EU's Military Committee, combat heterosexual masculinity in the Battle groups, and EU protector masculinity in the EU Training missions. The CSDP embodies different types of military masculinities; the relations between them are important for the reproduction of the gender order through a gendered logic of appropriateness. Yet, this too is invisible as part of the informal aspects of organizations. While women's bodies are written out of the CSDP, the construction of femininity in relation to the protector/protected binary is central to it. Two protected femininities are read in the texts. The vulnerable femininity of women in conflict areas is important for how the CSDP understands itself in relation to gender mainstreaming. In relation to the vulnerable femininity, CSDP constructs an EU protector masculinity, in turn, set against an aggressive violent masculinity in the Downloaded from areas where missions are deployed. Women's bodies are absent from the CSDP and they lack agency but are nevertheless associated with a protected femininity.

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Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory

The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory

Cognitive warfare

Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities

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