A strand of feminism that believes gender differences are not just socially constructed and that views of women as inherently less warlike than men (on average)

a strand of feminism that emphasizes gender equality and views the “essential” differences in men’s and women’s abilities or perspectives are trivial or nonexistent 

An effort to combine feminist and postmodernist perspectives with the aim of uncovering the hidden influences of gender in IR and showing how arbitrary the construction of gender role is. 

refers to polls showing women lower than men on average in their support for military actions (as well as for various other issues and candidates). 

a model in which decision makers calculate the costs and benefits of each possible course of ation, then choose the one with the highest benefits and lowest costs