War and peace are gendered and gendering geopolitical processes, constituting particular configurations of masculinity and femininity. When men are considered in relation to war and peace the majority of scholarly accounts focus on soldiers and perpetrators, typically observing their place in the gendered geopolitical solely through military/ized masculinities. In contrast, this article examines fatherhood as a masculine subjectivity, interacting in a nexus with other masculinities to produce an intelligible propeace intervention in war, and considers the implications for our understandings of gender and the geopolitical. To analyze this political subjectivity of what I term “paternal peace,” the article considers the case of Bob Bergdahl. Bergdahl’s son was a US soldier held by a Taliban-aligned group for five years until 2014. During this time Bergdahl was publically critical of US foreign policy, presenting his son’s release as part of a peace process that could end violence in Afghanistan. I unpack how Bergdahl’s public political subjectivity was the outcome of a “gender project” drawing on accounts of “valley” fatherhood in combination with particular forms of diplomatic and military masculinity. I consider how Bergdahl’s intervention was publically received, and how the geopolitical reach of it was pacified within gendered and racialized coding.

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地缘政治中的父权，性别和干预措施：分析父亲的和平，男子气概和战争

战争与和平是性别因素，也是地缘政治过程的性别因素，构成了男性气质和女性气质的特殊形态。当考虑与战争和和平有关的人时，大多数学术著作集中于士兵和肇事者，通常仅通过军事/男性化来观察他们在性别地缘政治中的地位。相比之下，本文将父亲身份看作是一种男性主观性，与其他男性气质联系而产生了可理解的对战争进行的前卫干预，并考虑了对我们对性别和地缘政治理解的影响。为了分析我所谓的“父母和平”的这种政治主观性，本文考虑了鲍勃·伯格达尔的情况。Bergdahl的儿子是塔利班同盟组织关押的一名美国士兵，任职五年，一直到2014年。在此期间，伯格达尔公开批评美国的外交政策，称其儿子被释放是和平进程的一部分，这可能会结束阿富汗的暴力行为。我分析了伯格达尔的公共政治主观性是“性别计划”的结果，该计划借鉴了“谷地”父亲的身份以及特殊形式的外交和军事男子气概。我考虑了Bergdahl的干预是如何公开获得的，以及性别和种族化编码如何平息了它的地缘政治影响。我分析了伯格达尔的公共政治主观性是“性别计划”的结果，该计划借鉴了“谷地”父亲的身份以及特殊形式的外交和军事男子气概。我考虑了Bergdahl的干预是如何公开获得的，以及性别和种族化编码如何平息了它的地缘政治影响。我分析了伯格达尔的公共政治主观性是“性别计划”的结果，该计划借鉴了“谷地”父亲的身份以及特殊形式的外交和军事男子气概。我考虑了Bergdahl的干预是如何公开获得的，以及性别和种族化编码如何平息了它的地缘政治影响。