Tag: Foreign Policy

February 21, 2018

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

The United States has made empowering women and girls a cornerstone of our foreign policy, because women’s equality is not just a moral issue, it’s not just a humanitarian issue, it is not just a fairness issue; it is a...

July 17, 2015

Reviews of "The Hillary Doctrine"

Read excerpts from an array of reviews that THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, has received.

July 16, 2015

Women's Rights Around the World

Read excerpts of two pieces on the state of women’s rights around the world: first, an interview with Patricia Leidl about government responses to crime against women in Latin America; and second, an article by Leidl and Valerie M. Hudson on the status of women’s rights in Yemen.

July 16, 2015

Watch the book launch discussion of "The Hillary Doctrine"

Watch Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl, the authors of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, discuss the importance of violence against women in foreign policy, the role of U.S. foreign policy in the world, and their new book with Rosa Brooks, Kathleen Kuehnast, and Daniela Ligiero.

July 15, 2015

No Matter Who’s Elected, We Need the Hillary Doctrine

Read a guest post by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, authors of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.

July 14, 2015

Has Hillary Really Helped the World’s Women?

Read an excerpt from THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, that originally appeared in Politico.

July 13, 2015

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of THE HILLARY DOCTRINE: SEX AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl.

October 23, 2014

Richard Betts on the Failures and Future of U.S. Military Actions

In a recent article in “Foreign Affairs,” Richard K. Betts, author of “American Force,” looks at the military and geopolitical challenges ahead for the United States.

August 29, 2013

Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria

“But Obama has actually learned the real lessons of Iraq, the risks and costs, to America and to the world, of poorly conceived interventions abroad that never go quite as promised.”—Marc Lynch on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria As...

April 26, 2012

Valerie M. Hudson: What Sex Means for World Peace

In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Valerie M. Hudson, coauthor of Sex and World Peace, argues that the very best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity;...