ABSTRACT
In my 1999 presidential address to the International Society of Political Psychology (Winter, 1999b), I suggested that some of the most characteristic features of the 20th century (things that our forebears back in 1899 probably did not expect of the new century) involve the themes of power, sex, and violence-both by themselves and also in various unholy combinations with each other. Each of these themes can be approached from the perspectives of many disciplines, but most notably the disciplines of psychology and politics. Inasmuch as political psychology is an interdisciplinary Weld focused on the complex and reciprocal relationships between these two disciplines, I believe that political psychology is uniquely poised to understand such a conXuence of power, sex, and violence. Indeed, I believe that understanding the psychological, social structural, and cultural dynamics of these three themes must become an urgent intellectual agenda for political psychology, if we all are to survive the next century.
