A surplus of men, a deficit of peace - Security and sex ratios in Asia's largest states
A surplus of men, a deficit of peace - Security and sex ratios in Asia's largest states
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10.1162/016228802753696753
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2002-03-01
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5
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Den Boer, A
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Hudson, VM;Den Boer, A
国际安全与稳定在很大程度上取决于各国的国内安全。分析人员长期以来一直在研究这方面的武器转让和种族暴力等因素，但清单现在包括了传统上被视为与国家安全无关的变量。失业率、地下水位和河流流量、婴儿死亡率、移民模式、传染病流行病学，以及一系列影响社会总体稳定的其他变量，现在都被认为会影响安全。要了解一个地区的长期安全动态，就必须研究托马斯·霍默-狄克逊和其他人所说的该地区各国的”环境安全”。[1]我们自己的研究当然也是在这一领域进行的，但我们考虑了一个变量，这个变量基本上被忽视了，即使是环境安全的学者也是如此。我们认为，一个被忽视的不安全感源泉是被夸大的性别不平等。安全研究在理论上和实践上都是贫乏的，以至于它未能探讨对妇女的暴力行为与社会内部和社会之间的暴力行为之间的关系。我们认为，我们的研究表明，一个地区的长期安全轨迹受到这种关系的影响。无可否认，在任何社会中，妇女都可能会经历某种性别不平等，即在政治、法律的、社会或经济事务中处于从属地位或受到低人一等的待遇。事实上，什么样的社会才是男女之间的完美社会是一个有争议的话题，我们在这里不关心。然而，夸大的性别不平等很难被忽视：我们将其定义为存在，因为性别，一个孩子被允许生存，而另一个孩子被主动或被动地杀死。2后代性别Valerie M.哈德逊是杨百翰大学政治学教授，也是大卫M.肯尼迪国际和地区研究中心。她的研究重点是外交政策决策，国家安全政策和性别的国际政治经济学。安德烈·登布尔目前正在完成她的博士学位。在英国坎特伯雷的肯特大学。她的研究探讨了身份，社区，正义和暴力之间的关系，发现在phi-losopher伊曼纽尔列维纳斯的著作。这篇文章包含了作者手稿《光秃秃的树枝：亚洲性别比例男性化的原因和后果》中的材料。"
International security and stability rest in large measure on the internal security of nations. Analysts have long examined factors such as arms transfers and ethnic violence in this regard, but the list now includes variables that were not traditionally viewed as related to national security. Unemployment rates, water tables and river flows, infant mortality, migration patterns, infectious disease epidemiology, and a whole host of other variables that tap into the general stability of a soci-ety are now understood to affect security. To understand the long-term security dynamics of a region, one must inquire into what Thomas Homer-Dixon and others have termed the" environmental security" of the nations therein. 1 Our own research is surely located in that field of inquiry, yet we contemplate a variable that has been by and large neglected even by scholars of envi-ronmental security. One overlooked wellspring of insecurity, we argue, is exaggerated gender inequality. Security scholarship is theoretically and empir-ically impoverished to the extent that it fails to inquire into the relationship be-tween violence against women and violence within and between societies. We believe that our research demonstrates that the long-term security trajectory of a region is affected by this relationship. Admittedly, there is probably no society in which women do not experience some gender inequality, meaning subordinate status or inferior treatment in political, legal, social, or economic matters. Indeed, what would constitute a perfect society between men and women is a controversial topic with which we are not concerned here. However, exaggerated gender inequality is hard to miss: We define it to be present when, because of gender, one child is allowed to live while another is actively or passively killed. 2 Offspring sexValerie M. Hudson is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University and a faculty affiliate of the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies. Her research centers on foreign policy decisionmaking, national security policy, and the international political economy of gender. Andrea Den Boer is currently completing her Ph. D. at the University of Kent at Canterbury in England. Her research explores the relationship between identity, community, justice, and violence as found in the writings of the phi-losopher Emmanuel Levinas. This article contains an abridgment of material found in the authors' book manuscript," Bare Branches: Causes and Consequences of the Masculinization of Asia's Sex Ratios."