in first days/weeks of US/NATO bombing, this list had a lot of traffic about nationalism, rights to self-determination, Kosovar Albanians, etc...a topic missing - with a few exceptions - from discussions about the war is how nationalism is always gendered. ..I'm thinking, for example, of works by Cynthia Enloe and Anne McClintock.. the nation-state was developed by men, largely for men...state-making has been bound up with war-making which has been monopolized by men... revolutionary armies (including Yugoslavian Partisan movement during WW2) provided exceptions, although evidence points to regression towards stereotyped gender roles following victory in a number of instances... state-making has also been bound up with wealth-making...capitalism, in part, resulted from opportunities for power and profit generated by gender relations (and continues to do so, obviously)... international politics has dealt - and continues to deal - mainly with state-making and wealth-making...women continue to be mostly invisible there leaving it a bastion of male power and privilege (not withstanding a few Thatchers & Albrights in decision-making circles)... state-makers have used nationhood (which Marx called an 'illusory community') to foster a solidarist 'us' and alien 'them'...thus, male domination of international politics ('high' politics as IR types are wont to say, in contrast to so-called 'low' politics which includes 'unimportant' issues such as health) exists as if in some gender-neutral realm...Michael Hoover