Up until about 2000, most of the work on gender and international relations (IR) was
nonpositivist in nature. Since 2000, there has been a burst of positivist gender/IR …

This article reviews the existing literature, mostly from political science, on suicide bombing.
A prominent weapon in the toolkit of violent nonstate actors for a generation, suicide …

Despite the frequent participation of women in armed groups, few studies have sought to
explain the variation in their roles across different rebellions. Herein, we investigate this …

As dozens of British women and girls travel to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, there are
increasing concerns over female radicalization online. These fears are heightened by the …

Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western
women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations …

How do the dynamics of female recruitment play out in actual civil wars? A potentially fruitful
first step in evaluating the theoretical claims put forth in the preceding chapters is to trace the …

Women participate extensively in armed, Islamist struggle. In recent years, foreign women
have travelled from the West to join Daesh. Their participation perplexes policymakers …

Although a substantial body of research argues that women provide terrorist organizations
with important tactical benefits, few studies draw out the implications of this argument or …

Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in
armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has …

ABSTRACT The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and
Security, and the Millennium Development Goals, brought the inclusion of women in the …