Abstract
However, pundits have yet to fully recognize a key danger to post-Trump US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific: the blindness of approaching US security in the region without the use of a gender lens. In this chapter, gender is understood as involving the socially constructed, historically contingent understandings, meanings and expectations imputed to femininities, masculinities and subordinated gender identities. In order to provide an overview of gender-analytic theoretical resources available and review the difference gender makes in US diplomacy and Indo-Pacific foreign policy, this chapter first reviews relevant theoretical developments in gender approaches to International Relations and US foreign policy. Because history is integral to understanding the Indo-Pacific, a second section then offers a sketch of significant moments in US Indo-Pacific foreign policy as seen mainly through the lens of gender-sensitive diplomatic history.
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