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This chapter focuses on two particular questions relating to the role of reputation and violence. The first is whether a reputation for past violence on the part of a state influences the onset ofnewviolence involving that state.This is the first stage of militarized conflict, the initiation of disputes. The second question is whether a reputation for escalating violence to full-blown war affects the likelihood that future disputes involving that state will be more likely to escalate to war as well. The results indicate that the hostile reputational histories increase the likelihood of conflict, and that conflict will escalate to war.

This chapter examines war in terms of “militarized violence.” Methodologically, it traces the most-traveled refugee route via military aircraft as a critical lens through which to map, both discursively and materially, the transpacific displacement brought about by the legacy of U.S. colonial and military expansion into the Asia Pacific region. Thus the chapter makes two related arguments: the first about military colonialism, which contends that it was the region’s (neo)colonial dependence on the United States that turned the Philippines and Guam—U.S. former and current colonial territories, respectively—into the “ideal” receiving centers of the U.S. rescuing project; the second about militarized refuge(es), which shows that refugees and refuge are mutually constituted and that both emerge out of and in turn bolster U.S. militarism.

This chapter presents a reflection on feminist politics in the context of militarized violence. It specifically explores the gender implications of globalization, human security, and human rights. It argues that it is crucial to identify the gendered antecedents and consequences of violence, conflict, and war. Processes of globalization do not occur in a uniform way across nation-states, governments, and corporations in the world today. Accountability for violence associated with resource extraction or production is lacking where economic activities transcend international borders. Furthermore, the chapter examines how states manage the protection and provision of basic rights and entitlements for their nationals. Feminist analyses of conflict elucidate the intimate connections between war, political economy, nationalism, and human displacement and their various impacts across scale.