Ep. 108: The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy

Guest: Patricia Leidl, author

Hillary Clinton once said that the subjugation of women constitutes an international security threat.

International Communications Advisor Patricia Leidl is the co-author of the "Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy," a book that took shape following Clinton’s statement.

Leidl says, "30 years of very robust surveys demonstrate where women are disempowered, where women face high levels of violence, you're going to also see higher levels of state and non-state armed violence, higher rates of criminality, higher rates of autocracy and higher rates of terrorism."

Leidl highlights the fact that “this is not a soft issue. It's a critical, hard security issue. And unless we tackle this head-on we're going to find ourselves in situations that are going to continue to create even greater instability all around.”