Saba Joshi has published a new article in International Studies Quarterly
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Posted on Monday 1 June 2026
Dr Saba Joshi has recently published an article titled "State Hypermasculinity in World Politics" (co-authored with Dr Maria Tanyag, Australian National University).
The article (available open access) advances the concept of state hypermasculinity to understand the rise of authoritarian and strongmen leaders, drawing on feminist international relations research on masculinities. The article unpacks the operation of hypermasculine logics across multiple domains of state power and underscores the significance of masculinities as more than an individual attribute. State hypermasculinity thus provides a conceptual tool for comparative and regional analyses of variation across contemporary authoritarian and populist rule, offering a more systemic account of the gendered dynamics underpinning global political transformations.