to address how to end war, it's masculinist bias and imperialist commitments born or its creation initially by elite, Eurocentric men Who made it a useful tool for elite, Eurocentric statesmen have made it less about statesmen--have ending war and more about controlling it and using it more effectively in construction of politics the interests of those in power. Given the masculinist construction of politics as aggressive and combative power over practices, it was an easy leap argue, as Carl von Clausewitz (2004) did in the nineteenth century, that war is the extension of politics by other means. However, if, as we argued in the last chapter, politics is seen as enabling power, then politics is the opposite of war, which shuts down debate i the raw power of might makes right. Similarly, for war to be the contemplated and waged"effectively, those against whom it is waged must be dehumanized (typically through feminization and racialization) in or