An international legal analysis of the UN Security Council's agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

Christine Chinkin is the author of many articles on international law, in particular on the human rights of women; co-author of The Boundaries of International Law: a Feminist Analysis (2000, with Hilary Charlesworth), The Making of International Law (2007, with Alan Boyle) and of International Law and New Wars (2017 with Mary Kaldor). She has been an expert witness at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, scientific adviser to the drafting committee for the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention).

1. The women, peace and security agenda; 2. Women, peace and security in international law; 3. Women and peace; 4. Women and security; 5. Conclusions.