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Since Sweden launched the world’s first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), the concept has become ubiquitous in foreign policy studies and practice. This book examines its rapid global diffusion, the challenges it faces and the fierce resistance it has provoked.
Featuring contributions from academics, activists and practitioners, the book interrogates FFP’s intersections with militarism, colonialism and patriarchy, while tracing its spread beyond the Global North. Amid democratic decline and surging far-right forces, it not only explores the rollback of feminist gains but also the resilience and creativity of civil society advocacy. Enriched with creative entries like poetry, this collection offers a bold multidisciplinary exploration of FFP’s transformative possibilities, and contested, uncertain future in global politics.
"The motifs and twin dynamics of ‘energy’ and ‘resistance’ that animate this collection are both fresh, and insightful. A much needed, and timely intervention that foregrounds much needed, and often marginalised critical voices on FFP." Shweta Singh, South Asian University
"With clarity and depth, this book unpacks feminist resistance and complicity with global power, insisting on decolonial solidarity and offering feminist movements vital knowledge for action." Faye Macheke and Inna Michaeli, AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development)
Columba Achilleos-Sarll is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Toni Haastrup is Professor and Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester.
Jennifer Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Bath.
Introduction: Energy and Resistance in/to ‘Feminist’ Foreign Policy - Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Toni Haastrup and Jennifer Thomson
Part I - Reimagining a Different World
1. A Feminist Foreign Policy for Our Times - Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson
2. First Nations and Feminist Approaches to Foreign Policy in Australia - A conversation with Julie Ballangarry and Alice Ridge, moderated by Jennifer Thomson
Part II - Talking Back: Who Gets to Do Feminist Foreign Policy?
3. Feminist Foreign Policy or Gender Equality? The Role of African Feminists and Civil Society - Helen Kezie-Nwoha
4. Together in the Movement: Six Lessons from Youth, for the Feminist Foreign Policy Community - Elinor McNamee
5. Learning from the Majority World: Decolonial Feminisms to Build Feminist Foreign Policies - Kirthi Jayakumar
Part III - Contestations within Feminist Foreign Policy
6. Feminist Approaches to Foreign Policy: Perspectives from Europe’s East - Kateřina Krulišová, Míla O’Sullivan, Maryna Shevtsova, and Oksana Potapova
7. The Martial Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy - Toni Haastrup, Annika Bergman Rosamond, and Christine Agius
8. as I F - Fatim Selina Diaby and Miriam Mona Mukalazi
Part IV - Feminist Foreign Policy within the Gender Governance Architecture
9. Feminist Foreign Policy Falling Flat - Detmer Kremer and Eva Tabbasam
10. Co-Existence or Competition? The Discursive and Normative Politics of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policies - Laurence Deschamps-Laporte and Bénédicte Santoire
11. Anti-Genderism and Feminist Foreign Policy: Paying Attention to the Domestic Politics of Gender - Clara Eroukhmanoff and Hannah Partis-Jennings
12. Feminist Foreign Policy: A Practitioner’s View from Paris - Delphine O as told to Kristina Lunz
Conclusion: What Does Feminist Foreign Policy Mean In Practice? Insights from Colombia, Ukraine, Sudan, and Palestine - Laura Beltrán, Olena Yermakova, Reem Abbas, Ashjan Ajour
Afterword: What is at Stake When Calling Foreign Policy Feminist? - Laura Sjoberg