The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States
The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States
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问题的核心：妇女的安全和国家的安全
作者：
Valerie M. Hudson;M. Caprioli;Bonnie Ballif;Rose McDermott;Chad F. Emmett
妇女的安全会影响国家的安全和行为吗？将妇女状况与国家一级的变量，如经济繁荣和增长、健康和腐败联系起来的现有证据相当确凿。然而，关于国家安全和与国家安全有关的行为在多大程度上与妇女的安全有关，仍然存在问题。《妇女与和平》的论文借鉴了进化生物学/心理学来寻找这种联系的最终原因，并借鉴了社会扩散的社会学理论和社会学习的心理学理论来寻找更接近的因果机制。一种新的数据资源-妇女统计数据库-和传统方法一起发现，妇女的人身安全与国家安全与和平的三项措施之间存在着强有力的积极关系。此外，将这一命题与涉及民主水平、经济发展水平和文明认同的其他解释进行比较，表明妇女的人身安全是国家安全与和平的更好预测因素。尽管这些结果是初步的，但仍然可以得出结论，即在研究国家安全时不应忽视妇女的安全，特别是考虑到，如果妇女的安全被认真视为对国家安全的重大影响，那么在促进安全方面要提出的研究问题和要考虑的政策倡议将有很大不同。
Does the security of women influence the security and behavior of states? Existing evidence linking the situation of women to state-level variables such as economic prosperity and growth, health, and corruption is fairly conclusive. Questions remain, however, concerning the degree to which state security and state security-related behavior is linked to the security of women. The women and peace thesis draws upon evolutionary biology/psychology for ultimate causes of this linkage, and sociological theories of social diffusion and psychological theories of social learning for more proximate causal mechanisms. Together, a new data resourcethe WomanStats Databaseand conventional methodology find a robust, positive relationship between the physical security of women and three measures of state security and peacefulness. In addition, a comparison of this proposition to alternative explanations involving level of democracy, level of economic development, and civilizational identity shows that the physical security of women is a better predictor of state security and peacefulness. Although these results are preliminary, it is still possible to conclude that the security of women must not be overlooked in the study of state security, especially given that the research questions to be raised and the policy initiatives to be considered in the promotion of security will differ markedly if the security of women is seriously considered as a significant influence on state security.