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Since the late 1980s, it has become a new research direction to examine international relations from women's perspectives. The main objective of this article is to explain the major problems facing feminism in the contemporary international relations. This article evaluates the major debates around feminist theories with respect to the discipline of international relations. Feminism is conventionally positioned as oppositional to direct and structural violence. Feminists in international relations argue that realism is a patriarchal discourse that renders women invisible from the high politics of international relations; ultimately perpetuated and dominated by elite, white, male practitioners.