Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis

For over a century, feminists have advocated for womens participation in the decision- making on war and peace in order to achieve a more just global order. There is today a growing recognition among states that promoting gender equality through foreign policy aids in a wide range of contemporary challenges from international development, climate change and inclusive trade to the prevention of conflict, terrorism and pandemics. At the same time, other powerful governments are contesting these ideas and fiercely resisting such foreign policy change. How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? A decade after states first adopted explicit pro-gender norms and/or feminist foreign policy strategies, feminist and gender scholarship is now beginning to take off in the field of foreign policy analysis (FPA), which was previously described as gender-blind. The overarching aim of the book is to provide the latest state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms, and foreign policy. The volume advances new theory, novel concepts and empirical knowledge for the emerging scholarly field of gender and foreign policy analysis. The book will contribute new analyses of different foreign policy domains, such as trade, defence, environment, peacebuilding and international development assistance. Moreover, it will critically explore how varied and contested gender and feminist approaches and strategies are across all these domains of foreign policy.