may engender, can be found in Francis Fukuyama's recent article, Women and the Evolution of World politics, in Foreign Affairs, as well as in the commentaries on it in the subsequent issues' Unlike the types of criticism mentioned above that, often mistakenly, accuses feminists of claiming the morally superior high ground for women, Fukuyama boldly asserts than indeed women are more peaceful than men. But, as has so often been the case, Fukuyama deploys his argument to mount a strong defense for keeping men in charge. Not only does this type of reasoning feed in to more strident forms of backlash against women in international politics, But it also moves our attention further away from more important issues. Hypothesizing about the merits