Hegemonic masculinity and power

A look at the configuration of the androcentric international system from the perspective of international relations

Abstract

This article aims to portray the role of hegemonic masculinity in the historical and current configuration of the global order. This view offers the possibility of analyzing the behaviors, stereotypes, archetypes and roles that surround the construction of men, which, although they vary contingentially in time and geographic space, preserve similarities between political leaders, revolutionary leaders or other key actors in the construction of the fabrics that are the object of study in international society. This, together with other factors of an economic, political, sociological or legal nature, influences both the configuration of the global order and the discipline itself. It is also necessary to review and update the theories and methodologies of International Relations, which, ignoring the current gender approach, contained a limited and partial vision of the world (without wishing to fall into anachronism), and which in recent decades have managed to bring into the conversation of internationalists.