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21 Brown J. World Aff. 113 (2014-2015)
Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa21 and id is 113 raw text is: Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research TERRELL CARVER Professor of Political Theory University of Bristol, UK GIVEN THAT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RESEARCH is focused on the state in relation to what are traditionally regarded as manly activities-war, conflict, defense, rivalry, weaponry, strategy, geo-politics, and the like-it is something of a mystery why the relevance of theoretical and empirical work on men and masculinities is regarded as a new idea. To understand why that is, we need to 113 draw a contrast between IR as it has developed from the 1920s to date, and its self-constructed pre-history in terms of classical theorists and their concerns. We also need to see the way in which masculinity is not the symmetrical opposite of femininity as human behavior, but rather a conceptual construct that works quite differently in relation to gender and gendering.' Once we have proceeded through those analytical steps, it will become apparent why the study of men and masculinity is not only regarded as a new idea in IR, but also why the study of masculinity is not popular among mainstream scholars, even though by nu- merical majority and in terms of professional influence they are men. Until recently, mainstream concepts and concerns in IR ignored or excluded gender as a relevant topic altogether. Even after some 30 years of feminist inter- ventions and critiques within the IR community, gender itself is still positioned TERRELL CARVER is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on sex, gender, and sexuality, most recently on the entry for those topics in A Handbook of Gender in World Politics, ed. J. Steans et al. (forthcoming), a conversation on 'Militarized Masculinities' with Aaron Belkin in International Feminist Journal ofPolitics 14, no. 4 (2012), and the 'Afterword' in the textbook Gender Matters in GlobalPolitics, 2nd ed., ed. L. Shepherd (2015). He also publishes extensively on Marx, Engels, and Marxism, and has a two-volume study of the German ideology manuscripts in press (forthcoming). Copyright @ 2014 by the Brown Journal ofWorldAfairs FALLIWINTER 2014 * VOLUME XXI, ISSUE I

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