Regardless Tickner’s appointed her commitment to draw on various feminist theory, it seems that in fact, that she relies heavily on feminist standpoint theory. In her gendering of the areas of national security, political economy and the natural environment, she often invokes the language and methods for standpoint, consistently trying to reformulate these areas from a feminist point of view. In remarking on gendered points of view of national security, she replays Kenneth Waltz's three levels of war causation: namely man, the state, the international system. She underscores the masculinist view of the world this static realist model depicts: one that "requires war-capable states peopled by heroic masculine citizen-warriors." Tickner claims
