Beliefs, Agency, and Feminist Perspectives: Rethinking Power in Global Affairs
This synopsis grows directly from the abstract’s central claim: global politics is shaped not
only by material power and institutions but also by belief systems, value frameworks, and
underlying assumptions about gender and agency. Rather than treating international relations
as a neutral technical arena, the study reads it as a space where convictions about whose lives
matter, what counts as “security,” and who is recognised as a legitimate political subject are
constantly reproduced and contested.
