Breaking barriers for women in foreign policy

With equal opportunities, meritorious women can contribute to IR with their intellectual insights.

Nicollo Machiavelli , in his book The Prince written in the 15th century, explicitly portrayed men as citizens and political actors, ignoring women’s roles. The book is widely acclaimed in political theory due to its realist philosophy, which advocates being quintessentially masculine for success. After working with the unstable governments and weak leaders of the Florentine State, Machiavelli came up with the idea of how one becomes a prince. The notion of how a man can take control of his state with a strong belief that a state could be governed by nobody else than a prince—a strong condemnation towards female contribution.