Focusing on politics at the margins dispels the assumption that power
is what comes out of the barrel of a gun or ensues from the declarations of world leaders. Indeed, feminist efforts to reinterpret power suggest
that International Relations scholars have underestimated the pervasiveness
of power and precisely what it takes, at every level and every day, to
reproduce a grossly uneven and hierarchical world order (Enloe 1997).
Feminist reconceptualizations of power and attention to the margins of
global politics could seriously help International Relations scholars to
recognize and comprehend new political phenomena such as the antisystemic
acts of the 9/11 martyrs and transnational terrorism in general.