Women’s Security as National Security

Chapter 6 evaluates the trajectory of Hillary Rodham Clinton from the roles of first lady, senator, and presidential candidate to secretary of state. Similar to Albright’s actions in the Balkans, Clinton endorsed NATO intervention in Libya in 2011. Military action in North Africa formed a crucial element of President Barack Obama’s first-term foreign policy record. It paralleled Clinton’s support as a senator for the US invasion of Iraq. Efforts by Clinton to make women’s rights a major pivot of her international doctrine echoed the feminist perspectives she held since early adulthood, which in turn were integral to the Democratic Party support base of the 1970s and following.

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