Maryam Khalid is a Lecturer and the Director of the Bachelor of International Studies program at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research is focused on global politics, security, and popular culture, exploring gender, sexuality, and race as processes, practices, and analytical lenses in and across international relations and global governance discourses.

• 1. IntroductionIdentities in the ‘War on Terror’Discourse: language, identity, power, and representationAnalytic strategyOutline of the book2. Gender, Orientalism, and Global PoliticsOrientalism and gender as discourseRe-reading Said‘American orientalism’Orientalism, race, and genderConclusion3. Gender, Race, ‘Self’, and ‘Other’ in Histories of International InterventionImperialism, liberalism and the USLiberal internationalism and the pre-1945 international systemThe ‘underdeveloped’ south in early liberal internationalismIntervention, development, and the threat of the ‘Other’Democratisation, humanitarianism, and the responsibility to protect4. Constructing the US ‘Self’ in ‘War on Terror’ Discourse‘Self’, nation, race, and genderMasculinity and the US ‘Self’Reading femininity(ies) in the US ‘Self’Conclusion5. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Afghanistan‘Saving’ AfghanistanConstructions of the ‘Other’Developing the narrative: Operation Enduring FreedomConclusion6. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: IraqConsolidating gendered orientalist discourse‘Liberating’ IraqThe sexuality of the ‘Other’Conclusion7. Conclusions