Gendered Logics of Global Politics: Feminist perspectives on peace, foreign policy and global governance

Abstract

This panel examines how gender shapes contemporary transformations in global politics, international relations and conflict and discusses how feminist discourses and women’s rights are mobilised within shifting global power structures. The first paper addresses the gendered aspects of the secret back-channel peace negotiations through the cases of Burundi, Colombia and Northern Ireland. The second paper examines feminist foreign policy in the context of the contemporary crisis of the liberal international order. The third paper offers a theoretical reflection on the integration of queer International Relations approaches to feminist foreign policy frameworks. The fourth paper analyses the co-optation of the rhetoric of women’s empowerment in the late twentieth-century global population control movement. The fifth paper explores how women’s rights norms are mobilized within authoritarian and conflict-affected contexts, drawing on the cases of Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

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Gendered Aspects of Back-Channel Negotiations in Burundi, Colombia, and Northern Ireland	View Paper Details
Feminism saves the world!: feminist foreign policy and the crisis of the liberal international order	View Paper Details
Queering Feminist Foreign Policy: The Potential of Feminist Foreign Policy to Dismantle Binary Gender Constructs in i/International Relations	View Paper Details
A Coercive Consensus: Gender, Power, and the Global Population Control	View Paper Details
The politics of women’s rights in authoritarian conflict-affected states: backlash, gender-washing, or window of opportunity?	View Paper Details