Tickner: “Three Voices of Man: Gendered Perspectives on Global Economic Security”
Tickner’s article discusses the various political practices adopted by states in order to promote their economic security. The author’s central idea is that, “the liberal, the economic nationalist, and the Marxist approaches to international political economy are biased towards masculine representations” (Tickner 90). The piece is written in Tickner’s usual style: conventional and educational, but not overly accessible to a wide audience.
A particularly interesting point of Tickner’s is that concerning the term “positive peace,” coined in the early 1970s. Speaking of the developing world, Tickner says: “The legitimacy of states that failed to meet ...