Building on an October 2022 Women in Diplomacy online event, this Strategic Update assesses the implications of feminist foreign policy (FFP) adoption for driving progress on improving women’s representation in diplomacy. Tracking the spread of FFPs globally and the ministers responsible for implementation, this paper focuses on their potential for improving or strengthening the role of women in diplomacy – including in ambassadorial and cabinet foreign-policy roles.
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Is Feminist Foreign Policy driving progress for women’s representation in diplomacy?
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Is Feminist Foreign Policy driving progress for women’s representation in diplomacy?
About the author
Caroline Green is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of International Relations at LSE and supports the LSE IDEAS project on Women in Development. Her research focuses on the intersection of colonialism and women’s rights at the international level. Caroline has a decade of experience as a research and advocacy specialist working on feminism and international frameworks for NGOs and international institutions
Marta Kozielska manages the Women in Diplomacy Project at LSE IDEAS. She is currently a Public Policy Consultant and has previously worked across think tanks, consultancy and non-governmental organisations, where she developed her expertise in international strategy, public policy, advocacy and strategic communications. Marta previously studied at the LSE and University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Karen E. Smith is the Director of the LSE IDEAS project on Women in Diplomacy. She is a professor of International Relations at the LSE. Her main area of research is the ‘international relations of the European Union’, and she has written extensively on the formulation and implementation of common EU foreign policies. For over a decade she has also analysed EU-UN relations and the role of other political and regional groups in UN diplomacy. She is now working on projects on women in foreign policy-making and diplomacy, and on the role of that emotions play in EU foreign policy-making.