Feminist Foreign Policy

New Peace Science Digest Special Issue “The Future of Peace” Now Available Online

How can we build a future of peace amid massive institutional disruptions, funding cuts, mounting wars, global polycrisis, and spreading militarism? Our new special issue offers theoretical and practical perspectives on how peace work can adapt to meet evolving challenges.   In this special issue, essays explore how we might sustain and adapt tested peacebuilding … Read more

Shiny Feminism

In this essay, Margherita Sofia Zambelli calls out “shiny feminism” and offers a set of questions, as tools, to analyze whether feminist foreign policies contribute to transformative change.

How to Better Define a Feminist Foreign Policy

In this essay, Padmini Das offers three strategies for how to better define and implement a feminist foreign policy.

From the Cuban Missile Crisis to Russia’s War in Ukraine: Strategic Empathy as Feminist Foreign Policy

In this essay, Samara Shaz outlines how a feminist foreign policy should replace brinkmanship with strategic empathy in order to end wars and prevent further loss of human life.

Right to Choice and the Hijab: Call for International Legal Reform

In this essay, Raghavi Purimetla and Amukta Sistla envision how a feminist foreign policy can integrate with international legal frameworks to protect women’s rights around the world.

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“From Victims to Leaders”: Let the Silenced Speak – Climate Change through the Lens of Feminist Foreign Policy

In this essay, Shrinwanti Mistri argues for climate justice as a core feature of feminist foreign policy, and for centering those most impacted and marginalized by the global climate crisis in decision-making processes about how to address it.

The Feminist Revolution: An Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Militarist Case for Rethinking Foreign Policy

In this essay, Irina Militaru argues that a feminist foreign policy must be anti-capitalist.

The War Within

In this essay, Morgan Shier intimately links the experience of daily life with a call for policies that recognize human multidimensionality, intersectionality, and interconnectedness.

The Case for a Feminist Domestic Policy for Mexico 

In this essay, Rocío Magali Maciel calls for a feminist domestic policy for Mexico—in addition to the country’s feminist foreign policy—to address violence against women.

The Girl Next Door: How Local Individuals Can Affect Global Policy

In this essay, Isobel Dodd argues that addressing domestic misogyny must be a part of a feminist foreign policy to strengthen state security.

Unsettling Feminist Foreign Policy and Aotearoa New Zealand

In this essay, Angela Wilton argues that a “feminist” foreign policy would be an anti-feminist act in Aotearoa New Zealand without co-creation and co-governance with Indigenous peoples.