Feminist Foreign Policy and Normative Power EU

Abstract

This panel explores how feminist approaches to foreign policy intersect with the European Union’s claim to normative power in an era marked by geopolitical turbulence, democratic backsliding, and contested global governance. Bringing together research on parliamentary diplomacy, inter-parliamentary cooperation, feminist activism, and EU strategic frameworks, the panel examines the extent to which feminist principles are embedded in, or marginalized from EU external action. The panel illuminates both the promise and the limits of feminist foreign policy within the EU’s external governance. It demonstrates how gendered power, institutional practices, and transnational feminist mobilization interact to shape the EU’s capacity to act as a credible normative power on the global stage.

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