Women in International Security’s Dr. Karin Johnston sits down with co-authors Joyce Kaufman and Kristen Williams to discuss their new book, Gender Race and Power: Examining IR through an Intersectional Lens. WIIS President & CEO Lauren Van Metre provides welcome remarks. Today, we face an increasingly complex and shifting security environment, and the book details, in its chapters, how we gain explanatory power by applying an intersectional analysis to emerging problems—climate, the environment—but also in more mainstream IR issues: war, peace, and security; human rights and humanitarian intervention, and the global economy and development. Watch as Karin, Joyce, and Kristen discuss the importance of the book’s intersectional approach and its timely relevance to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
(This book talk was recorded live on September 16th, 2025).