https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5067?type=CORESince the late 1980s, feministcritiques of so-called 'Traditional' International Relations (IR) have beensome of the most sustained, accusing the discipline not only of havingmaintained an almost total gender blindness, but also of an active resistanceon the part of many IR scholars to the import of feminist works. And nowherehas such resistance been strongest than in the field of Security, or moreaccurately, Strategic Studies. Set against this, this course puts itsparticular focus on scholarship that illuminates the production of militarisedmasculinities and femininities; dominant social, cultural constructions thatreflect often idealised imaginings of men and women in their involvements withpolitical violence. In asking the question 'What does it take to be/make a goodsoldier?', the course reflects on how states and their military institutionsprivilege certain (gendered) portrayals of service and violence; portrayalsthat serve to reproduce the very identities of those actors and institutions aswell as legitimise the kind of wars that wish to prosecute. With a particularview on 'combat', certain imaginings of soldiering are considered in relationto the lived experiences of those men and women who have served andfought.