Valerie M. Hudson is Professor and George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. Hudson is co-author of Sex and World Peace (Columbia, 2012), The Hillary Doctrine (Columbia, 2015), and Bare Branches (MIT Press, 2004), and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Minerva Initiative, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Compton Foundation, though her views do not represent the views of these institutions.