RECURRING FEATURE of post-Cold War new world order narratives is the assertion that a democratic reshaping of the international jL community is underway.~ However, a largely uncontested silence surrounds the implications of expanding democratization for international law-making processes (Crawford, 1993). The global production of the new democratic imperative has focused attention on issues of governmental legitimacy within states, effectively circumventing questions of representation, participation and legitimacy in the global polity (Franck, 1992;Teson, 1992). The validity of this manoeuvre relies on continuing acceptance of the United Nations (UN) model wherein democratic pretensions always already capitulate to the de facto balance of global power.Successful management of this treacherous terrain, so as to prevent democratic demands from spilling over into the international arena, relies on a classical liberal conception of the international community as a citizenry of formally equal nation-states which relegates non-state groupings, individuals at OAKLAND UNIV on June 2, 2015 sls.sagepub.com Downloaded from
The Security Council recognizes that peace is inextricably linked with equality between women and men ... [and] that the equal access and• full participation of women in power structures and their full involvement in all efforts for the prevention and resolution of confl icts are essential for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.-Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdury (2000) 1 President, UN-Security Council Recent feminist efforts to engage with the United Nations (UN) Security Council could be dismissed as a futile attempt to employ the "master's tools" to dismantle the "master's house." 2 There is a long history of lip service by international institutions to the antimilitaristic ways of thinking that have been at .the heart,of women's peace movements for centuries. 3 However unlikely it was, these efforts have borne fruit as evidenced by the State ment of the Council's President, Bangladeshi Ambassador Chowdury, on International Women's Day in 2000, linking gender equality "inextricably"
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