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Scholars’ Circle – The Suffragist Peace: How women gained voting rights and affected global politics – March 16, 2025

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The expansion of the vote to women throughout the 20th Century has had an impact on the discourses and politics of war and peace. What is the relationship between women voting, electing women leaders, and women-lead groups in civil society on the issue of war and peace?

Does the expansion of the vote to women lead to the election of women as leaders? And are these leaders more committed to peace than their male counterparts? We explore a new book, The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War..[ dur: 58mins. ]

  • Joslyn Barnhart is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is also senior research scientist at Deep Mine in London. She is the author of The consequences of humiliation, anger, and status, threats in international politics
  • Robert F. Trager is a Professor in the political science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He’s the author of a forthcoming book Diplomacy Communication and the Origins of International Order

    • Together they have authored The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War

    This interview was recorded April 2024.

    This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.

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