well as the effects of war or militarized conflict. Unless these are taken seriously, even rival notions of(nondisaggregated) human security to state security will fail to recognize all the sources of insecurity(bred of the in- justices of structural violence) and their differential effects. At the same time, we share the more poststructural feminist view that security is always"elusive and partial" because the quest for absolute security in itself productive of violence: it relies on the eradication of all threats, real or imagined, and thus sets up a never-ending defensive and offensive posture(Tickner 2001: 62). Such a posture is emblematic of the"sovereign man" (Ashley 1989), who, like the sovereign state that is fashioned upon this construct of hegemonic masculinity, thwarts connection