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Abstract. On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 under the title of ‘women and peace and security’—the first forma

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

We concluded our recent book, Governing the Feminist Peace, with an exhortation to “forget WPS”—to abandon attempts to force coherence onto an agenda that had become so sprawling and intricate over it...

The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power

WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda

Abstract. This is a lightly edited version of the presidential address I delivered at the sixty-fifth annual convention of the International Studies Associ

In recent years, social media platforms have seen a growing promotion of the Tradwife’s lifestyle, where cis women embrace patriarchal gender norms and identities such as the stay-at-home mother an...

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia University Press. Laura is Professo…

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Teaching International Relations theory almost invariably involves entering into dialogue about sovereignty and geographical space. In this essay, we argue that very little consideration is given to t...

In The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing, Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violen...

Teaching International Relations theory almost invariably involves entering into dialogue about sovereignty and geographical space. In this essay, we argue that very little consideration is given to t...

These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Conversing with Laura Shepherd in The Self and Other Stories, this essay considers accompaniment, embodiment, expertise, and representation through a care-infused lens. I present my readings of conten...

The Self, and Other Stories lies at the intersection of IR and the personal. Through seven reflexive essays, Shepherd explores themes of writing as a way of being and knowing, but also as a necess...