Interview with the Author: A Woman's Place

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The 9/11 attacks transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism and led to an unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. This has impacted the roles of women in relation to counterterrorism and terrorism in as yet largely unrecognized and undocumented ways. Yet, flawed assumptions and stereotypes remain prevalent, and it is unclear how and why counterterrorism efforts have evolved as they did in relation to women.

Join Joana Cook, a senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, as she discusses her new book on these topics, A Woman's Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2020) with Mark Stout, director of the Johns Hopkins MA in Global Security Studies program. The conversation will cover the evolution of women in U.S. counterterrorism efforts through the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations. Cook will explain how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates U.S. counterterrorism practices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. She will also address how the roles of women in al-Qaida and Daesh have evolved and affected U.S. counterterrorism considerations.

In addition to her work at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, Cook is a teaching fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and a research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society.

This event will also be live streamed; register for information. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies.