Stéfanie Von Hlatky
Biographic Data
| ID | 309252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stéfanie Von Hlatky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stéfanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Hlatky |
| SIGNATURE | VON HLATKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4007-3859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Divide and conquer: Russia's anti-west campaign and gender-based disinformation
This article investigates how Russia employs gender-based disinformation as a strategic tool to advance its foreign policy objectives. Although existing research on gender-based foreign influence and disinformation emphasizes its domestic social effects, it has not fully explored how states instrumentalize gendered narratives to pursue broader geopolitical goals. Using qualitative content analysis of 367 pro-Kremlin disinformation articles, we id…
The Absent are Always Wrong: The Friendship Motive and Canada’s Participation in Nato’s Operation in Libya
In this article, we explore the friendship motive in coalition warfare. Specifically, we refer to decisions about the use of force that are more about strengthening bilateral relationships than national assessments of conflict dynamics. Empirically, we examine Canada’s participation in Operation Unified Protector (OUP), NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya. OUP offers a relevant case study for understanding coalitions of democratic states going to w…
Nato, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence
Following the UN Lead? Nato’s Contested Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy
Little Victories and Big Hurdles: The State of Women, Peace and Security Research after 25 Years
This article reflects on the state of Women, Peace and Security ( WPS ) research after twenty-five years. To mark the silver anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution ( UNSCR ) 1325, which launched the global WPS agenda in 2000, we present an overview of the WPS research on norm adoption, implementation, and contestation, offering broader insights into the practical challenges of translating norms into practice. Starting with the …
Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Canadian Security Studies
Although much research confirms a gender gap in political science and its subfields internationally, only recently have scholars analyzed country-specific conditions for women within the field. Our study contributes to this national-level examination of gender diversity and inclusion by examining the extent to which a gender gap within the subfield of security studies, identified in the international literature, also is present in Canada. Researc…
Local engagement and U.S. military attitudes toward gender integration: Evidence from Afghanistan
As debates on gender integration growin the military and Women, Peace, and Security scholarship, security studies scholars and policy experts are scrutinizing the link between gender and operational effectiveness. This article argues that deployed experiences create opportunities for soldiers to observe women's engagement with host communities, particularly local women - contributing to soldiers' improved attitudes toward gender integration. Empl…
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Nato: From Cold War to Ukraine
The Ukraine War and nuclear sharing in Nato
Russian nuclear sabre-rattling following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated debates over NATO deterrence. One of its key components—nuclear sharing—has been in place since September 1954, but support for it within the alliance has varied over time. Indeed, although Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey host American gravity bombs on their territory, there were fears during the 2010s that some of them would follow Canada,…
Response to Katharine M. Millar’s Review of Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in Nato Military Operations
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When the coalition determines the mission: Nato’s detour in Libya
In this article, we argue that the composition of coalitions is key to understanding military operations, because it encompasses decisive intra-coalition dynamics such as great power and alliance politics, caveats and institutional constraints. The case study analysis, focused on NATO’s war in Libya, relies on content analysis of national and NATO policy documents as well as interviews with policymakers and military officials. We find that, while…
Unblurring the Lines of Responsibility: The Puzzle of Veteran Service Provision and its Gendered Implications
The ever-increasing representation of women in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has sparked discussion about the gendered implications of military-to-civilian transition. Women are now the fastest growing cohort of veterans in Canada and represent nearly 16% of the military. As the demographics of the military change in Canada and elsewhere, so too will the face of veterans. Despite the Government of Canada’s clear mandate to include gender-based …
Nato enlargement and the failure of the cooperative security mindset
Experiences May Vary: Nato and Cultural Interoperability in Afghanistan
This article examines the coherence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) coordinated military strategy during the war in Afghanistan. We argue that much of this coherence can be lost when decision makers adopt multinational strategic guidance that is then interpreted by different national contingents operationally. Different strategic and military cultures across troop-contributing countries may account for observed variation in ope…
Nato's About-Face: Adaptation to Gender Mainstreaming in an Alliance Setting
Scholars in global security studies have only recently focused attention on how and why international security organizations (ISOs) adapt. Since the United Nations Security Council's issuance of Resolution 1325, some ISOs have enacted changes to implement gender mainstreaming. The concept involves incorporating gender-based analyses in policy and planning and increasing women's representation. Drawing on interviews with seventy-one elites and a d…
Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America by Sylvia Bashevkin
Striking a deal on the F-35: Multinational politics and US defence acquisition
Why does joint defence production of advanced weapons systems, which appears like a logical choice at first, become harder for both the primary production state and its allies to manage and justify as the acquisition process runs its course? To answer this question, we analyze the multinational politics of the F-35 JSF with a focus on how secondary states who have bought into the program are affected by domestic politics within the primary produc…
Ideology, ballots, and alliances: Canadian participation in multinational military operations
The decision to employ force abroad is often a contentious political decision, where partisanship plays a crucial role. Prior to military intervention, political parties usually make their ideologically distinctive preferences clear and seek to implement them once in power. What remains unclear, however, is how ideology affects the decision to use military force. This article contends that alliance and electoral calculations constrain the ability…
Peace first? What is Canada’s role in UN operations
In the wake of the Canadian government’s pledge for a renewed role at the United Nations (UN) notably by reengaging in peacekeeping activities, this special issue focuses on Canada’s added value to peace operations. Our aim is to identify the goals, challenges, and stakes for Canada’s reengagement in peace operations as a central component of foreign and defence policy. One of the first questions to ask is how can Canada contribute to peace opera…
Cash or Combat? America’s Asian Alliances During the War in Afghanistan
A basic trade-off in military cooperation exists: States must respond to the dominant ally’s demands and act as a reliable partner while simultaneously making a decision that is acceptable to domestic audiences. We argue that compensatory burden-sharing strategies are imperfect but dependable solutions to manage foreign policy decisions at the domestic and alliance levels. Our theoretical expectations are tested using the US-Japan and US-Republic…
From exceptional to special? A reassessment of France–Nato relations since reintegration
Revisiting France's nuclear exception after its ‘return’ to Nato
Women, gender, and international security
In August 2014, as Islamic State jihadists rampaged through Iraq and engaged in genocidal against non-Sunni Muslims, they kidnapped over 3000 Yazidi women and girls. A few months earlier, in May, Boko Haram extremists abducted over 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, consistent with their larger and more systematic abduction campaign mirroring the tactics used by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. In both Iraq and Nigeria, abducted women and girls…
International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation
Regional transformation has emerged as a major topic of research during the past few decades, much of it seeking to understand how a region changes into a zone of conflict or cooperation and how and why some regions remain in perpetual conflict. Although the leading theoretical paradigms of international relations have something to say about regional order, a comprehensive treatment of this subject is missing from the literature. This book sugges…
Experiences May Vary: Nato and Cultural Interoperability in Afghanistan
This article examines the coherence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) coordinated military strategy during the war in Afghanistan. We argue that much of this coherence can be lost when decision makers adopt multinational strategic guidance that is then interpreted by different national contingents operationally. Different strategic and military cultures across troop-contributing countries may account for observed variation in ope…
Ideology, ballots, and alliances: Canadian participation in multinational military operations
The decision to employ force abroad is often a contentious political decision, where partisanship plays a crucial role. Prior to military intervention, political parties usually make their ideologically distinctive preferences clear and seek to implement them once in power. What remains unclear, however, is how ideology affects the decision to use military force. This article contends that alliance and electoral calculations constrain the ability…
The Ukraine War and nuclear sharing in Nato
Russian nuclear sabre-rattling following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated debates over NATO deterrence. One of its key components—nuclear sharing—has been in place since September 1954, but support for it within the alliance has varied over time. Indeed, although Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey host American gravity bombs on their territory, there were fears during the 2010s that some of them would follow Canada,…
From exceptional to special? A reassessment of France–Nato relations since reintegration
Nato's About-Face: Adaptation to Gender Mainstreaming in an Alliance Setting
Scholars in global security studies have only recently focused attention on how and why international security organizations (ISOs) adapt. Since the United Nations Security Council's issuance of Resolution 1325, some ISOs have enacted changes to implement gender mainstreaming. The concept involves incorporating gender-based analyses in policy and planning and increasing women's representation. Drawing on interviews with seventy-one elites and a d…
Cash or Combat? America’s Asian Alliances During the War in Afghanistan
A basic trade-off in military cooperation exists: States must respond to the dominant ally’s demands and act as a reliable partner while simultaneously making a decision that is acceptable to domestic audiences. We argue that compensatory burden-sharing strategies are imperfect but dependable solutions to manage foreign policy decisions at the domestic and alliance levels. Our theoretical expectations are tested using the US-Japan and US-Republic…
Women, gender, and international security
In August 2014, as Islamic State jihadists rampaged through Iraq and engaged in genocidal against non-Sunni Muslims, they kidnapped over 3000 Yazidi women and girls. A few months earlier, in May, Boko Haram extremists abducted over 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, consistent with their larger and more systematic abduction campaign mirroring the tactics used by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. In both Iraq and Nigeria, abducted women and girls…
Sharing the Burden of the Border: Layered Security Co-operation and the Canada–US Frontier
Effectively managing the Canada–US border has emerged as a major security challenge post-9/11. Burden-sharing theories suggest that the United States would take the lead on border security due to its hegemonic role in ensuring North American security, while smaller nations such as Canada enjoy a free ride. We refute the free-rider hypothesis and propose an approach which accounts for the differentiated concerns held by contiguous states. By dedic…
Local engagement and U.S. military attitudes toward gender integration: Evidence from Afghanistan
As debates on gender integration growin the military and Women, Peace, and Security scholarship, security studies scholars and policy experts are scrutinizing the link between gender and operational effectiveness. This article argues that deployed experiences create opportunities for soldiers to observe women's engagement with host communities, particularly local women - contributing to soldiers' improved attitudes toward gender integration. Empl…
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Nato enlargement and the failure of the cooperative security mindset
Peace first? What is Canada’s role in UN operations
In the wake of the Canadian government’s pledge for a renewed role at the United Nations (UN) notably by reengaging in peacekeeping activities, this special issue focuses on Canada’s added value to peace operations. Our aim is to identify the goals, challenges, and stakes for Canada’s reengagement in peace operations as a central component of foreign and defence policy. One of the first questions to ask is how can Canada contribute to peace opera…
The Rhetoric and Reality of Border Policy Coordination between Canada and the US
In December 2011, Canada and the United States unveiled a joint border policy blueprint, now better known as the The initiative was almost 10 months in the making, following the February 2011 declaration that signalled a new turn in continental security with the adoption of the perimeter approach to border management. The perimeter security model aims to unburden the Canada-US border by addressing threats before they can enter either country. Cle…
The Nuclear Question and the Obama Presidency
Almost all discussions about the United States and the future of nuclear weapons policy refer to two now- famous editorials in the Wall Street Journal, in which the four statesmen - George Shultz, William Perry, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger - lay out their vision for a nuclear-free world.1 The latest Adelplii paper, entitled Abolishing nuclear even proposes a concrete plan for achieving this vision, an effort ambitiously undertaken by George Per…
Canada and the G8 Global Partnership Program: Tackling the WMD Threat
The attacks of 11 September 2001 have ushered in a paradigm shift with regard to way states assess international threats. Fear of unfathomable damage that terrorists could cause if they acquired weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has plagued United States and its allies ever since. In American nuclear posture review published in April 2010, Obama administration recognizes that the most immediate and extreme threat today is nuclear terrorism.1 Perh…
International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation
Regional transformation has emerged as a major topic of research during the past few decades, much of it seeking to understand how a region changes into a zone of conflict or cooperation and how and why some regions remain in perpetual conflict. Although the leading theoretical paradigms of international relations have something to say about regional order, a comprehensive treatment of this subject is missing from the literature. This book sugges…
The Rhetoric and Reality of Border Policy Coordination between Canada and the US
In December 2011, Canada and the United States unveiled a joint border policy blueprint, now better known as the The initiative was almost 10 months in the making, following the February 2011 declaration that signalled a new turn in continental security with the adoption of the perimeter approach to border management. The perimeter security model aims to unburden the Canada-US border by addressing threats before they can enter either country. Cle…
Sharing the Burden of the Border: Layered Security Co-operation and the Canada–US Frontier
Effectively managing the Canada–US border has emerged as a major security challenge post-9/11. Burden-sharing theories suggest that the United States would take the lead on border security due to its hegemonic role in ensuring North American security, while smaller nations such as Canada enjoy a free ride. We refute the free-rider hypothesis and propose an approach which accounts for the differentiated concerns held by contiguous states. By dedic…
From exceptional to special? A reassessment of France–Nato relations since reintegration
Revisiting France's nuclear exception after its ‘return’ to Nato
Women, gender, and international security
In August 2014, as Islamic State jihadists rampaged through Iraq and engaged in genocidal against non-Sunni Muslims, they kidnapped over 3000 Yazidi women and girls. A few months earlier, in May, Boko Haram extremists abducted over 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, consistent with their larger and more systematic abduction campaign mirroring the tactics used by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. In both Iraq and Nigeria, abducted women and girls…
Cash or Combat? America’s Asian Alliances During the War in Afghanistan
A basic trade-off in military cooperation exists: States must respond to the dominant ally’s demands and act as a reliable partner while simultaneously making a decision that is acceptable to domestic audiences. We argue that compensatory burden-sharing strategies are imperfect but dependable solutions to manage foreign policy decisions at the domestic and alliance levels. Our theoretical expectations are tested using the US-Japan and US-Republic…
Striking a deal on the F-35: Multinational politics and US defence acquisition
Why does joint defence production of advanced weapons systems, which appears like a logical choice at first, become harder for both the primary production state and its allies to manage and justify as the acquisition process runs its course? To answer this question, we analyze the multinational politics of the F-35 JSF with a focus on how secondary states who have bought into the program are affected by domestic politics within the primary produc…
Ideology, ballots, and alliances: Canadian participation in multinational military operations
The decision to employ force abroad is often a contentious political decision, where partisanship plays a crucial role. Prior to military intervention, political parties usually make their ideologically distinctive preferences clear and seek to implement them once in power. What remains unclear, however, is how ideology affects the decision to use military force. This article contends that alliance and electoral calculations constrain the ability…
Peace first? What is Canada’s role in UN operations
In the wake of the Canadian government’s pledge for a renewed role at the United Nations (UN) notably by reengaging in peacekeeping activities, this special issue focuses on Canada’s added value to peace operations. Our aim is to identify the goals, challenges, and stakes for Canada’s reengagement in peace operations as a central component of foreign and defence policy. One of the first questions to ask is how can Canada contribute to peace opera…
Nato's About-Face: Adaptation to Gender Mainstreaming in an Alliance Setting
Scholars in global security studies have only recently focused attention on how and why international security organizations (ISOs) adapt. Since the United Nations Security Council's issuance of Resolution 1325, some ISOs have enacted changes to implement gender mainstreaming. The concept involves incorporating gender-based analyses in policy and planning and increasing women's representation. Drawing on interviews with seventy-one elites and a d…
Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America by Sylvia Bashevkin
Unblurring the Lines of Responsibility: The Puzzle of Veteran Service Provision and its Gendered Implications
The ever-increasing representation of women in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has sparked discussion about the gendered implications of military-to-civilian transition. Women are now the fastest growing cohort of veterans in Canada and represent nearly 16% of the military. As the demographics of the military change in Canada and elsewhere, so too will the face of veterans. Despite the Government of Canada’s clear mandate to include gender-based …
Nato enlargement and the failure of the cooperative security mindset
Experiences May Vary: Nato and Cultural Interoperability in Afghanistan
This article examines the coherence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) coordinated military strategy during the war in Afghanistan. We argue that much of this coherence can be lost when decision makers adopt multinational strategic guidance that is then interpreted by different national contingents operationally. Different strategic and military cultures across troop-contributing countries may account for observed variation in ope…
When the coalition determines the mission: Nato’s detour in Libya
In this article, we argue that the composition of coalitions is key to understanding military operations, because it encompasses decisive intra-coalition dynamics such as great power and alliance politics, caveats and institutional constraints. The case study analysis, focused on NATO’s war in Libya, relies on content analysis of national and NATO policy documents as well as interviews with policymakers and military officials. We find that, while…
Response to Katharine M. Millar’s Review of Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in Nato Military Operations
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Local engagement and U.S. military attitudes toward gender integration: Evidence from Afghanistan
As debates on gender integration growin the military and Women, Peace, and Security scholarship, security studies scholars and policy experts are scrutinizing the link between gender and operational effectiveness. This article argues that deployed experiences create opportunities for soldiers to observe women's engagement with host communities, particularly local women - contributing to soldiers' improved attitudes toward gender integration. Empl…
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Nato: From Cold War to Ukraine
The Ukraine War and nuclear sharing in Nato
Russian nuclear sabre-rattling following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated debates over NATO deterrence. One of its key components—nuclear sharing—has been in place since September 1954, but support for it within the alliance has varied over time. Indeed, although Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey host American gravity bombs on their territory, there were fears during the 2010s that some of them would follow Canada,…
Nato, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence
Following the UN Lead? Nato’s Contested Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy
Political science (26 works) · Law (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (9 works) · Alliance (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works)