The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy
The Cases of Chile and Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6353979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jody Thomson (0000-0001-5518-9849), Leslie Wehner (0000-0001-5790-7568) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 569-591 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x24000503 |
| OpenAlex | W4408686323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 68 |
A growing number of states are adopting a feminist foreign policy (FFP). While this change has excited much scholarly attention, the process by which countries decide to adopt FFP remains unclear: How can we explain their journey toward the formal adoption of FFP? What factors create an environment in which these states were willing (and able) to declare their foreign policy feminist? We bring together literature on FFP and foreign policy change to identify the factors that lead to the uptake of FFP. The roles of a favorable domestic context, policy entrepreneurs, a new governing coalition, and the international context for feminism are highlighted as having clear impact on the decision to adopt FFP. The paper focuses on two different cases: Sweden, which pioneered the idea of FFP until a rollback on its position following domestic elections in 2022, and Chile, which only adopted FFP in 2022
Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law
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Practice tracing
Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
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The Chemical Weapons Taboo
Feminist critical friends
Gender norms, global hierarchies and the evolution of feminist foreign policy
Identity Management and Role Branding in Security Affairs
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Canada's New Feminist International Assistance Policy
Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy and “Gender Cosmopolitanism”
Narrative, Ontological Security, and Foreign Policy Change
Gendering Foreign Policy
Toward a (More) Critical FPA
Missing in Analysis
What's Feminist about Feminist Foreign Policy? Sweden's and Canada's Foreign Policy Agendas
Induction and Deduction in International Relations
Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada
The narration of roles in foreign policy analysis
Foreign policy change and international norms
Let Me Tell the Story Straight On’
Protection beyond Borders
Postcolonial Logic and Silences in Strategic Narratives
Feminist foreign policy and global (health) care work migration
Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making
All that Glitters is Not Gold
The women-friendly welfare states revisited
A Struggle for Hegemonic Feminisation in Six Feminist Foreign Policies Or, How Social Hierarchies Work in World Politics
Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives
Status Seekers
How Should We Study Foreign Policy Change
Beyond Paradigms
Incredibly loud and extremely silent
The Contagion Effects of the Feminist Initiative in Sweden
Re(gion)alizing Women's Human Rights in Latin America
Foreign Policy Change
The equality conundrum
Gender and International Relations
Praise or critique? Sweden’s feminist foreign policy in the eyes of its fellow EU members
Rethinking the life cycles of international norms
Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy
Changing Course
How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective1
Women's rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice
Sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada's "feminist" international assistance
A nation of feminist arms dealers? Canada and military exports
Which feminism(s)? For whom? Intersectionality in Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy
The origins of Canada's feminist foreign policy
A Revolt Within a Revolt
Canada's evolving feminist foreign policy
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
Can a feminist foreign policy be undone? Reflections from Sweden
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |