Eril Diplomasi Kültürüne Feminist Bir Eleştiri

Abstract

This article discusses the kind of tensions that are created between women and diplomacy by the masculine structure that dominates the diplomacy culture, and how these tensions have been transforming around which historical and theoretical arguments. In fact, especially with the influence of realist movement, foreign policy has been a field where women's movement has penetrated quite late. While history of women's movement goes back to late 19 th century, we can only see the influence of this movement on foreign policy discussions as late as 1980s. So called "Third big argument" criticising the state and the security oriented perspectives those based on realist movement in International Relations, has introduced a new perspective into foreign policy, which has been suggesting to include other matters such as humanitarian issues, gender, and environment. In this context, criticisms on excluding women in foreign policy decision making process and solving matters such as war and security with a strictly male perspective, has managed to introduce women's right discussions into this discipline. With the help of these discussions, the number of women partaking in decision making process in foreign policy has increased. Within the framework of historical and theoretical discussions, this article addresses the criticisms of women's movement regarding epistemology of foreign policy. Later on, the article discusses the new perspectives added to foreign policy matters by women's movement, and how these perspectives affected the changes within masculine diplomacy culture. Finally, the reflections of these discussions on diplomatic missions both in Turkey and all over the world are assessed to conclude the article. The article aims to make new contributions to the current discussions in terms of evaluating how feminist discussions and women's representation has affected the change in foreign policy culture.