Katharine A M Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 388145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine A M Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT K A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0911-5122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Moving beyond a ‘hollow concept’: Realising women, peace and security at Nato under a Trump presidency
Social Justice in Post-Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland
This article explores gender and social justice in post-conflict societies, using Northern Ireland as a case study. It focuses specifically on the socio-economic impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU (Brexit) on women in Northern Ireland using a social justice framework, drawing on recognition, redistribution and representation as conceptualised by Nancy Fraser. It uses qualitative research conducted between 2022 and 2023 comprising focus gro…
Nato’s Digital Diplomacy
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially slow to adapt to the digital age in diplomacy. However, in recent years, the alliance has taken a range of approaches to expand its presence and become more involved in shaping, engaging, and innovating digital diplomatic narratives. The use of digital diplomacy has the potential to increase scrutiny and interest in NATO, as well as allowing for direct engagement with consumers without i…
Engaging women, peace, and security in defence: The role of the Nato committee on gender perspectives
As NATO marks its 75th anniversary it is facing a future more uncertain than at any point since the end of the Cold War. The European security environment is changed and challenged by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the Israel-Gaza war poses further challenges. Given this critical moment, this article offers a strategic intervention to highlight and reinforce the essential role of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda in defe…
Sweden, Nato and the gendered silencing of feminist foreign policy
Sweden was the first state to adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014, drawing on its state feminist tradition and support for the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Yet following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Sweden's move to seek NATO membership—abandoning its policy of non-alignment—a gendered silence on FFP pervaded. Significantly, this therefore predated the official abandonment of…
The Impact of Brexit on Women, Peace and Security in Northern Ireland: Spotlight on Violence Against Women
The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland (NI) is now well established; however, less attention has been given to the impact on women, despite the applicability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. In this policy commentary, we detail the impact Brexit has had on the issue of violence against women in NI. This is timely, given that the NI Executive Office has developed an Ending Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategic Framework, of w…
Digital Celebrity Diplomacy in the UN Security Council Elections: Canada, Ireland and Kenya
The 2020 UN Security Council ( SC ) elections concluded during a historical period defined by the global COVID -19 pandemic. As officials scrambled to organise a socially distanced election, the final stage of the campaigns was forced into the digital realm. To bolster candidate states’ chances of being elected to the SC , digital diplomacy became the primary mode of communication. Here we focus on the SC campaigns of Canada, Ireland and Kenya, w…
Nakedly Normative: A Feminist (Re‐)Imagination of Planetary Politics
This article makes the case for a feminist (re‐)imagination of planetary politics in the context of the normative power approach and Manners' opening article in this special section. Arguing for an urgent turn to a politics that embraces the whole of the planet, we ask: How can we build processes and political structures that equip us with what is needed to manage those tests now faced by the planet? We apply a critical feminist lens to argue tha…
Where is Women, Peace and Security? Nato’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war
Challenging civil society perceptions of Nato: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is there…
Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn - Addendum
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Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn
Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to NATO in 2018 signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within the language of celebrity through engagement with popular culture. The partnership represents a significant change in the alliance's approach to global security. It also builds on a shift in NATO's self-narrative through the advocacy of gender justice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Rather than fading into t…
Ontological (in)security and Covid-19: Reimagining crisis leadership in UK higher education
First paragraph: The UK, at present, is characterised by a sense of ontological insecurity. Christopher S. Browning (2018) describes this type of insecurity as ‘fundamentally destabilising and challenging established worldviews, routines and core conceptions of selfhood’ (2018, 337). This is not a new phenomenon but one highlighted by years of multiple and intersecting crises, the most recent of which is the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of these…
Equalities in freefall? Ontological insecurity and the long‐term impact of Covid‐19 in the academy
This intervention focuses on the impact of the global crisis resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic on existing racialized and gendered inequalities within the academy and in particular our discipline of Politics and International Relations. We argue that responses to recent crises within the academy have exacerbated ontological insecurity among minoritized groups, including women. When coupled with increased caring responsibilities, the current cr…
Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations
The European Union has historically sought to project outwards its identity, values and raison d’être during times of uncertainty and crisis. One of the core values stated to be at the heart of the European Union’s identity is gender equality. Yet, while gender equality features more visibly in the European Union’s external discourse as it seeks to position itself as a global leader in equality and human rights, the internal challenge posed by cr…
Brexit: Gendered implications for equality in the UK
How can we seek to unpack the complex and gendered dynamics of Brexit amid a deeply divisive and fast-paced debate? We argue that to not address this question is a cost too high. The challenge, given the scope of our intervention here, is to disentangle the work that gender is doing as a structure of power that shapes every aspect of our daily lives. As feminist scholars, we know that gender structures and norms will permeate the myriad possibili…
Bringing Gender In? EU Foreign and Security Policy after Brexit
In this article, we identify Brexit as a critical juncture, wherein the EU has had the opportunity to reflect on and reinforce its identity, as a promoter of gender issues within the security domain. It draws on this identity from a foundational myth of the EU as gender equality polity, resulting in the creation of a socio-legal order and sustained discourse on gender inclusivity in all policy areas. Existing scholarship has drawn attention to th…
Does European Union studies have a gender problem? Experiences from researching Brexit
On International Women’s Day 2017, EU Vice-President Frans Timmermans and High Representative Federica Mogherini claimed, “the European Union stands by women in Europe and around the globe today, as it did at the time of its foundation.” Indeed, (gender) equality has long been used as a foundational narrative of the EU (MacRae 2010). If we take these claims seriously, then gender-sensitive analysis should have a central place within EU studies. S…
Feminist Experiences of ‘Studying Up’: Encounters with International Institutions
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Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes
Despite equality being considered one of the key normative foundations of the EU, gender has not yet been mainstreamed within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This article investigates the impact of institutional structures on the inclusion of a gender dimension in this policy area. The article engages with the concept of feminist triangles to unpack the role of actors and processes; specifically, highlighting key innovations and mi…
The Double Delegitimatisation of Julia Gillard: Gender, the Media, and Australian Political Culture
This article explores Australian media coverage of Julia Gillard's leadership. It employs a comparative discourse analysis of the gendered nature of media reporting on her sexism and misogyny speech and eventual demise. The article places these gendered framings within two contexts: that of the more general gendered expectations of the double bind facing all women leaders; and the more specific challenge to Australia's women leaders, posed by exc…
Telling Nato’s story of Afghanistan: Gender and the alliance’s digital diplomacy
NATO’s public diplomacy plays an important role in constituting the alliance’s identity in global politics, yet has remained marginal to many scholarly accounts of the alliance. This article considers NATO’s increasing footprint in digital diplomacy and the role of gendered narratives in shaping it. The central point of analysis is NATO’s ‘story of Afghanistan’, told in the web-documentary Return to Hope, which was released to much acclaim in Sep…
Navigating gender, power and perceptions when researching Nato: A conversation
We both carried out our PhD research on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. While Katharine’s focus was on the alliance’s political structures and public diplomacy and included visits to NATO in 2014, Matt’s research visits took place in 2012 and examined NATO’s military structures and the (re)construction of military masculinities and femininities. What follows is a conversa…
Sticks and stones: Comparing Twitter campaigning strategies in the European Union referendum
Both camps made extensive use of social media during the referendum, both to mobilise existing supporters and to convert new ones. However, the three main groups—Stronger In, Vote Leave and Leave.EU—each took differing strategies within this. Drawing on tweets published by the groups, the article compares the use of different positive and negative frames, as well as the thematic content. While reinforcing other work that shows differentials in fo…
Gendering normative power Europe: Lessons of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
The European Union is seen to operate at the international level by promoting ideas and values, rather than by exerting military or economic power. As a gender actor, the EU has played a key role in the development of formal equality, which is presented as a foundational principle of European integration. It therefore follows that normative power Europe should seek to promote these values in external affairs. This article interrogates the role of…
Nato’S adoption of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: Making the agenda a reality
International security institutions play a pivotal role in the realisation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda through their adoption and implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. This article examines NATO’s adoption of UNSCR 1325, drawing upon Cynthia Enloe’s conception of NATO as a ‘teaching machine’ disseminating lessons on gender. In doing so, it finds UNSCR 1325 has been understood to be of ‘added-value’ to the Alliance in …
Leadership and the media: Gendered framings of Julia Gillard's ‘sexism and misogyny’ speech
This article analyses Australian media portrayals of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's 'sexism and misogyny' speech to parliament in October 2012. Our analysis reveals that coverage of the speech comprised three principal gendered framings: strategic attack, uncontrolled emotional outpouring and hypocrisy. We argue that these framings demonstrate the role the media plays as a gendered mediator, perpetuating the gender double bind t…
Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes
Despite equality being considered one of the key normative foundations of the EU, gender has not yet been mainstreamed within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This article investigates the impact of institutional structures on the inclusion of a gender dimension in this policy area. The article engages with the concept of feminist triangles to unpack the role of actors and processes; specifically, highlighting key innovations and mi…
Sticks and stones: Comparing Twitter campaigning strategies in the European Union referendum
Both camps made extensive use of social media during the referendum, both to mobilise existing supporters and to convert new ones. However, the three main groups—Stronger In, Vote Leave and Leave.EU—each took differing strategies within this. Drawing on tweets published by the groups, the article compares the use of different positive and negative frames, as well as the thematic content. While reinforcing other work that shows differentials in fo…
Equalities in freefall? Ontological insecurity and the long‐term impact of Covid‐19 in the academy
This intervention focuses on the impact of the global crisis resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic on existing racialized and gendered inequalities within the academy and in particular our discipline of Politics and International Relations. We argue that responses to recent crises within the academy have exacerbated ontological insecurity among minoritized groups, including women. When coupled with increased caring responsibilities, the current cr…
Does European Union studies have a gender problem? Experiences from researching Brexit
On International Women’s Day 2017, EU Vice-President Frans Timmermans and High Representative Federica Mogherini claimed, “the European Union stands by women in Europe and around the globe today, as it did at the time of its foundation.” Indeed, (gender) equality has long been used as a foundational narrative of the EU (MacRae 2010). If we take these claims seriously, then gender-sensitive analysis should have a central place within EU studies. S…
Gendering normative power Europe: Lessons of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
The European Union is seen to operate at the international level by promoting ideas and values, rather than by exerting military or economic power. As a gender actor, the EU has played a key role in the development of formal equality, which is presented as a foundational principle of European integration. It therefore follows that normative power Europe should seek to promote these values in external affairs. This article interrogates the role of…
Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations
The European Union has historically sought to project outwards its identity, values and raison d’être during times of uncertainty and crisis. One of the core values stated to be at the heart of the European Union’s identity is gender equality. Yet, while gender equality features more visibly in the European Union’s external discourse as it seeks to position itself as a global leader in equality and human rights, the internal challenge posed by cr…
Telling Nato’s story of Afghanistan: Gender and the alliance’s digital diplomacy
NATO’s public diplomacy plays an important role in constituting the alliance’s identity in global politics, yet has remained marginal to many scholarly accounts of the alliance. This article considers NATO’s increasing footprint in digital diplomacy and the role of gendered narratives in shaping it. The central point of analysis is NATO’s ‘story of Afghanistan’, told in the web-documentary Return to Hope, which was released to much acclaim in Sep…
Feminist Experiences of ‘Studying Up’: Encounters with International Institutions
This article makes the case for feminist IR to build knowledge of international institutions. It emerges from a roundtable titled ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist IR: Researching Gendered Institutions’ which took place at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore in 2017. Here, we engage in self-reflexivity, drawing on our conversation to consider what it means for feminist scholars to ‘study up’. We argue tha…
Challenging civil society perceptions of Nato: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is there…
Bringing Gender In? EU Foreign and Security Policy after Brexit
In this article, we identify Brexit as a critical juncture, wherein the EU has had the opportunity to reflect on and reinforce its identity, as a promoter of gender issues within the security domain. It draws on this identity from a foundational myth of the EU as gender equality polity, resulting in the creation of a socio-legal order and sustained discourse on gender inclusivity in all policy areas. Existing scholarship has drawn attention to th…
Nakedly Normative: A Feminist (Re‐)Imagination of Planetary Politics
This article makes the case for a feminist (re‐)imagination of planetary politics in the context of the normative power approach and Manners' opening article in this special section. Arguing for an urgent turn to a politics that embraces the whole of the planet, we ask: How can we build processes and political structures that equip us with what is needed to manage those tests now faced by the planet? We apply a critical feminist lens to argue tha…
Navigating gender, power and perceptions when researching Nato: A conversation
We both carried out our PhD research on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. While Katharine’s focus was on the alliance’s political structures and public diplomacy and included visits to NATO in 2014, Matt’s research visits took place in 2012 and examined NATO’s military structures and the (re)construction of military masculinities and femininities. What follows is a conversa…
Sweden, Nato and the gendered silencing of feminist foreign policy
Sweden was the first state to adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014, drawing on its state feminist tradition and support for the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Yet following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Sweden's move to seek NATO membership—abandoning its policy of non-alignment—a gendered silence on FFP pervaded. Significantly, this therefore predated the official abandonment of…
Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn
Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to NATO in 2018 signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within the language of celebrity through engagement with popular culture. The partnership represents a significant change in the alliance's approach to global security. It also builds on a shift in NATO's self-narrative through the advocacy of gender justice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Rather than fading into t…
Brexit: Gendered implications for equality in the UK
How can we seek to unpack the complex and gendered dynamics of Brexit amid a deeply divisive and fast-paced debate? We argue that to not address this question is a cost too high. The challenge, given the scope of our intervention here, is to disentangle the work that gender is doing as a structure of power that shapes every aspect of our daily lives. As feminist scholars, we know that gender structures and norms will permeate the myriad possibili…
The Impact of Brexit on Women, Peace and Security in Northern Ireland: Spotlight on Violence Against Women
The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland (NI) is now well established; however, less attention has been given to the impact on women, despite the applicability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. In this policy commentary, we detail the impact Brexit has had on the issue of violence against women in NI. This is timely, given that the NI Executive Office has developed an Ending Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategic Framework, of w…
Digital Celebrity Diplomacy in the UN Security Council Elections: Canada, Ireland and Kenya
The 2020 UN Security Council ( SC ) elections concluded during a historical period defined by the global COVID -19 pandemic. As officials scrambled to organise a socially distanced election, the final stage of the campaigns was forced into the digital realm. To bolster candidate states’ chances of being elected to the SC , digital diplomacy became the primary mode of communication. Here we focus on the SC campaigns of Canada, Ireland and Kenya, w…
Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn - Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Ontological (in)security and Covid-19: Reimagining crisis leadership in UK higher education
First paragraph: The UK, at present, is characterised by a sense of ontological insecurity. Christopher S. Browning (2018) describes this type of insecurity as ‘fundamentally destabilising and challenging established worldviews, routines and core conceptions of selfhood’ (2018, 337). This is not a new phenomenon but one highlighted by years of multiple and intersecting crises, the most recent of which is the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of these…
Leadership and the media: Gendered framings of Julia Gillard's ‘sexism and misogyny’ speech
This article analyses Australian media portrayals of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's 'sexism and misogyny' speech to parliament in October 2012. Our analysis reveals that coverage of the speech comprised three principal gendered framings: strategic attack, uncontrolled emotional outpouring and hypocrisy. We argue that these framings demonstrate the role the media plays as a gendered mediator, perpetuating the gender double bind t…
Gendering normative power Europe: Lessons of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
The European Union is seen to operate at the international level by promoting ideas and values, rather than by exerting military or economic power. As a gender actor, the EU has played a key role in the development of formal equality, which is presented as a foundational principle of European integration. It therefore follows that normative power Europe should seek to promote these values in external affairs. This article interrogates the role of…
Nato’S adoption of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: Making the agenda a reality
International security institutions play a pivotal role in the realisation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda through their adoption and implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. This article examines NATO’s adoption of UNSCR 1325, drawing upon Cynthia Enloe’s conception of NATO as a ‘teaching machine’ disseminating lessons on gender. In doing so, it finds UNSCR 1325 has been understood to be of ‘added-value’ to the Alliance in …
The Double Delegitimatisation of Julia Gillard: Gender, the Media, and Australian Political Culture
This article explores Australian media coverage of Julia Gillard's leadership. It employs a comparative discourse analysis of the gendered nature of media reporting on her sexism and misogyny speech and eventual demise. The article places these gendered framings within two contexts: that of the more general gendered expectations of the double bind facing all women leaders; and the more specific challenge to Australia's women leaders, posed by exc…
Telling Nato’s story of Afghanistan: Gender and the alliance’s digital diplomacy
NATO’s public diplomacy plays an important role in constituting the alliance’s identity in global politics, yet has remained marginal to many scholarly accounts of the alliance. This article considers NATO’s increasing footprint in digital diplomacy and the role of gendered narratives in shaping it. The central point of analysis is NATO’s ‘story of Afghanistan’, told in the web-documentary Return to Hope, which was released to much acclaim in Sep…
Navigating gender, power and perceptions when researching Nato: A conversation
We both carried out our PhD research on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. While Katharine’s focus was on the alliance’s political structures and public diplomacy and included visits to NATO in 2014, Matt’s research visits took place in 2012 and examined NATO’s military structures and the (re)construction of military masculinities and femininities. What follows is a conversa…
Sticks and stones: Comparing Twitter campaigning strategies in the European Union referendum
Both camps made extensive use of social media during the referendum, both to mobilise existing supporters and to convert new ones. However, the three main groups—Stronger In, Vote Leave and Leave.EU—each took differing strategies within this. Drawing on tweets published by the groups, the article compares the use of different positive and negative frames, as well as the thematic content. While reinforcing other work that shows differentials in fo…
Does European Union studies have a gender problem? Experiences from researching Brexit
On International Women’s Day 2017, EU Vice-President Frans Timmermans and High Representative Federica Mogherini claimed, “the European Union stands by women in Europe and around the globe today, as it did at the time of its foundation.” Indeed, (gender) equality has long been used as a foundational narrative of the EU (MacRae 2010). If we take these claims seriously, then gender-sensitive analysis should have a central place within EU studies. S…
Feminist Experiences of ‘Studying Up’: Encounters with International Institutions
This article makes the case for feminist IR to build knowledge of international institutions. It emerges from a roundtable titled ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist IR: Researching Gendered Institutions’ which took place at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore in 2017. Here, we engage in self-reflexivity, drawing on our conversation to consider what it means for feminist scholars to ‘study up’. We argue tha…
Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes
Despite equality being considered one of the key normative foundations of the EU, gender has not yet been mainstreamed within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This article investigates the impact of institutional structures on the inclusion of a gender dimension in this policy area. The article engages with the concept of feminist triangles to unpack the role of actors and processes; specifically, highlighting key innovations and mi…
Brexit: Gendered implications for equality in the UK
How can we seek to unpack the complex and gendered dynamics of Brexit amid a deeply divisive and fast-paced debate? We argue that to not address this question is a cost too high. The challenge, given the scope of our intervention here, is to disentangle the work that gender is doing as a structure of power that shapes every aspect of our daily lives. As feminist scholars, we know that gender structures and norms will permeate the myriad possibili…
Bringing Gender In? EU Foreign and Security Policy after Brexit
In this article, we identify Brexit as a critical juncture, wherein the EU has had the opportunity to reflect on and reinforce its identity, as a promoter of gender issues within the security domain. It draws on this identity from a foundational myth of the EU as gender equality polity, resulting in the creation of a socio-legal order and sustained discourse on gender inclusivity in all policy areas. Existing scholarship has drawn attention to th…
Equalities in freefall? Ontological insecurity and the long‐term impact of Covid‐19 in the academy
This intervention focuses on the impact of the global crisis resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic on existing racialized and gendered inequalities within the academy and in particular our discipline of Politics and International Relations. We argue that responses to recent crises within the academy have exacerbated ontological insecurity among minoritized groups, including women. When coupled with increased caring responsibilities, the current cr…
Imagining the European Union: Gender and Digital Diplomacy in European External Relations
The European Union has historically sought to project outwards its identity, values and raison d’être during times of uncertainty and crisis. One of the core values stated to be at the heart of the European Union’s identity is gender equality. Yet, while gender equality features more visibly in the European Union’s external discourse as it seeks to position itself as a global leader in equality and human rights, the internal challenge posed by cr…
Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn - Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Nato's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn
Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to NATO in 2018 signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within the language of celebrity through engagement with popular culture. The partnership represents a significant change in the alliance's approach to global security. It also builds on a shift in NATO's self-narrative through the advocacy of gender justice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Rather than fading into t…
Ontological (in)security and Covid-19: Reimagining crisis leadership in UK higher education
First paragraph: The UK, at present, is characterised by a sense of ontological insecurity. Christopher S. Browning (2018) describes this type of insecurity as ‘fundamentally destabilising and challenging established worldviews, routines and core conceptions of selfhood’ (2018, 337). This is not a new phenomenon but one highlighted by years of multiple and intersecting crises, the most recent of which is the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of these…
Where is Women, Peace and Security? Nato’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war
Challenging civil society perceptions of Nato: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is there…
Digital Celebrity Diplomacy in the UN Security Council Elections: Canada, Ireland and Kenya
The 2020 UN Security Council ( SC ) elections concluded during a historical period defined by the global COVID -19 pandemic. As officials scrambled to organise a socially distanced election, the final stage of the campaigns was forced into the digital realm. To bolster candidate states’ chances of being elected to the SC , digital diplomacy became the primary mode of communication. Here we focus on the SC campaigns of Canada, Ireland and Kenya, w…
Nakedly Normative: A Feminist (Re‐)Imagination of Planetary Politics
This article makes the case for a feminist (re‐)imagination of planetary politics in the context of the normative power approach and Manners' opening article in this special section. Arguing for an urgent turn to a politics that embraces the whole of the planet, we ask: How can we build processes and political structures that equip us with what is needed to manage those tests now faced by the planet? We apply a critical feminist lens to argue tha…
Nato’s Digital Diplomacy
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially slow to adapt to the digital age in diplomacy. However, in recent years, the alliance has taken a range of approaches to expand its presence and become more involved in shaping, engaging, and innovating digital diplomatic narratives. The use of digital diplomacy has the potential to increase scrutiny and interest in NATO, as well as allowing for direct engagement with consumers without i…
Engaging women, peace, and security in defence: The role of the Nato committee on gender perspectives
As NATO marks its 75th anniversary it is facing a future more uncertain than at any point since the end of the Cold War. The European security environment is changed and challenged by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the Israel-Gaza war poses further challenges. Given this critical moment, this article offers a strategic intervention to highlight and reinforce the essential role of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda in defe…
Sweden, Nato and the gendered silencing of feminist foreign policy
Sweden was the first state to adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014, drawing on its state feminist tradition and support for the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Yet following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Sweden's move to seek NATO membership—abandoning its policy of non-alignment—a gendered silence on FFP pervaded. Significantly, this therefore predated the official abandonment of…
The Impact of Brexit on Women, Peace and Security in Northern Ireland: Spotlight on Violence Against Women
The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland (NI) is now well established; however, less attention has been given to the impact on women, despite the applicability of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. In this policy commentary, we detail the impact Brexit has had on the issue of violence against women in NI. This is timely, given that the NI Executive Office has developed an Ending Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategic Framework, of w…
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